Planetary Biostyles

Rodanthi Tzanelli, Professor of Sociology of Culture, School of Sociology and Social Policy and Co-Director of the Bauman Institute, University of Leeds, UK

‘In a time of concatenating crises where “life” in both the sense of ecological health and of human meaning is under threat, how do we navigate? Tzanelli uses an imaginative examination of human mobility in all its forms and consequences to build a new, excoriating diagnosis of our current predicament. As if this were not enough, she also catalogues and critiques in great detail the diverse responses and solutions being offered and explored, ranging from the personal and intimate (biographical styles), to the grand and totalising (high theory and utopian schemes). She points out the dangers of the latter, challenging the reader to attend to the modest, careful and situated work of care in a complex, more-than-human planet whose dynamics will always exceed our grasp.’

• ContentsPART I FOUNDATIONS AND ORIENTATIONS1 Rethinking biopolitical imaginaries: styles and planetaryflows of life 2 Economies of attention and the design of viable planetary futures PART II ‘DAMAGED’ HUMANITY3 Anthropo-sensing and the anthropo-scenes of damagedtravel(lers)4 Undoing the diagnostics of power, monstering (human) nature 5 Worldbreaking I and the project of recovery from power PART III ‘DAMAGED’ EARTH6 Introducing the geo-scene 7 Environmental imaginaria in the age of extinction:theming and mytheming a biostylistic ghost 8 Worldbreaking II to document the future: monsters inartificial paradise(s) 9 The planetary imperative after ‘modernity’: drifting andwayfaring in the Critical Zone Bibliography