Against the anthropocene : visual culture and environment today / T.J. Demos.

Main entry:

Demos, T. J., author.

Title & Author:

Against the anthropocene : visual culture and environment today / T.J. Demos.

Publication:

Berlin : Sternberg Press, [2017]
©2017

Description:

129 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 20 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Welcome to the Anthropocene! -- Geoengineering the Anthropocene -- Against the Anthropocene -- Capitalocene violence -- Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene, the many names of resistance.

Summary:

"Addressing the current upswing of attention in the sciences, arts, and humanities to the new proposal that we are in a human-driven epoch called the Anthropocene, this book critically surveys that thesis and points to its limitations. It analyzes contemporary visual culture--popular science websites, remote sensing and SatNav imagery, eco-activist mobilizations, and experimental artistic projects--to consider how the term proposes more than merely a description of objective geological periodization. This book argues that the Anthropocene terminology works ideologically in support of a neoliberal financialization of nature, anthropocentric political economy, and endorsement of geoengineering as the preferred--but likely disastrous--method of approaching climate change. To democratize decisions about the world's near future, we urgently need to subject the Anthropocene thesis to critical scrutiny and develop creative alternatives in the present."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9783956792106 (paperback)
3956792106 (paperback)

Subject:

Geology, Stratigraphic Anthropocene Social aspects.
Visual communication Environmental aspects.
Environmentalism in art.
Human ecology in art.
Nature Effect of human beings on.
Climatic changes Social aspects.
Global environmental change Social aspects.
Political ecology.
Cultural geography.
Environmentalism.
Global environmental change Economic aspects.
Climatic changes Economic aspects.
Environnementalisme.
Communication visuelle Aspect de l'environnement.
Anthropocène Aspect social.
Écologie politique.
Environnementalisme dans l'art.
Géographie culturelle.
Êtres humains Influence sur la nature.
Changement global (Environnement) Aspect économique.
Climat Changements Aspect économique.
Écologie humaine dans l'art.
Climat Changements Aspect social.
Changement global (Environnement) Aspect social.
Art and Design.
Environmental geology
Global environmental change
Human beings Effect of environment on
Human geography
Anthropozän
Kritik
Ökologische Bewegung
Protest
Theorie
Umweltschaden

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