Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene

Auteur

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the author of The Mushroom at the End of the World. She is also a Professor at Aarhus University. Jennifer Deger is Professor of Digital Humanities and Co-Director of the Centre for Creative Futures at Charles Darwin University, Australia. Alder Keleman Saxena is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Program in Sustainable Communities at Northern Arizona University. Feifei Zhou is Adjunct Assistant Professor in Architecture at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Together they are coeditors of Stanford's digital publication Feral Atlas: The More-than-Human Anthropocene (2020).

Texte du rabat

"A Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene leads the reader through a series of sites, observations, thought experiments, and genre-stretching descriptive practices to take stock of our current planetary crisis. This is a guide for researchers of many stripes; a book that nurtures and promotes a revitalized natural history in direct response to worlds falling apart"--

Contenu

Introduction
PART I. Patches

1. Bringing Field Observation to the Anthropocene
2. What Makes a Patch?
3. Mapping the Patch
   Part II. Ruptures
4. Hotspots in the Patchy Anthropocene
5. Unseasonal Weather
6. How to Detonate an Anthropocene
   Part III. Histories
7. Others Without History
8. What Is History?
9. Histories of the Future
   Part IV. Epistemics
10. Piling
11. Building and Unbuilding
12. Beyond Piling
    Appendix: Feral Atlas and *>