Samuel Alexander

Broschiertes Buch

Compost Capitalism

Art and Aesthetics at the End of Empire

Beschreibung

What role might art need to play in the transition beyond consumer capitalism? Can 'culture jamming' contribute to the necessary revolution in consciousness? And might art be able to provoke social change in ways that rational argument and scientific evidence cannot? In this stimulating new book, "Compost Capitalism: Art and Aesthetics at the End of Empire," degrowth scholar Samuel Alexander explores these questions by curating a stunning array of 'culture jamming' images from a range of counter-cultural artists. By turns provocative and inspiring, the reader is exposed to art and images that challenge the status quo and expand the horizons of what alternatives are possible. This book is an abridged, image-based version of "Art Against Empire: Toward an Aesthetics of Degrowth," in which Samuel Alexander advances the degrowth movement by establishing the theoretical foundations of degrowth aesthetics.

Autor

Dr Samuel Alexander is a Research Fellow with the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute and a lecturer with the Office for Environmental Programs. He teaches a course called 'Consumerism and the Growth Economy: Critical Interdisciplinary Perspectives' as part of the Master of Environment. He is also co-director of the Simplicity Institute. His interdisciplinary research focuses on post-growth and degrowth economics, energy, voluntary simplicity, 'grassroots' theories of transition, and the relationship between culture and political economy. Alexander's books include Degrowth in the Suburbs (2019, co-authored with Brendan Gleeson), Carbon Civilisation and the Energy Descent Future (2018, co-authored with Joshua Floyd), Art Against Empire: Toward an Aesthetics of Degrowth (2017), Just Enough is Plenty: Thoreau's Alternative Economics (2016), Deface the Currency: The Lost Dialogues of Diogenes (2016), Prosperous Descent: Crisis as Opportunity in an Age of Limits (2015), Sufficiency Economy: Enough, for Everyone, Forever (2015), and Entropia: Life Beyond Industrial Civilisation (2013). He is also editor of Voluntary Simplicity: The Poetic Alternative to Consumer Culture (2009) and co-editor of Simple Living in History: Pioneers of the Deep Future (2014). Most of his writings are available at samuelalexander.info

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simplicity Institute
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 203mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 617g
• ISBN-13: 9780994160683
• ISBN-10: 0994160682
• Artikelnr.: 57281158