Phillip John Usher

Exterranean

Extraction in the Humanist Anthropocene

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Produktbeschreibung

Exterranean concerns the extraction of stuff from the Earth, a process in which matter goes from being sub- to exterranean. By shifting emphasis from emission to extraction, Usher reorients our perspective away from Earthrise-like globes and shows what is gained by opening the planet to depths within. Both historicist and speculative in approach, Exterranean eschews the self-congratulatory claims of posthumanism and lays the groundwork for a comparative ecocriticism that reaches across periods and languages. congratulatory claims of posthumanism and lays the groundwork for a comparative ecocriticism that reaches across periods and languages.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 371g
• ISBN-13: 9780823284214
• ISBN-10: 0823284212
• Artikelnr.: 53538064

Autorenporträt

Phillip John Usher is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at New York University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. .ix
Incipit: From Sub- to Exterranean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
I: Terra Global Circus
1. Terra Has Standing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
24
2. Terre's Brilliant Mines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
41
3. Terra Globalized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. 57
II: Welcome to Mineland
4. Sickly Mountainsides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
80
5. Demonic Mines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. 99
III: Hiding in Exterranean Matter
6. Geomedia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . 115
7. Saline Intimacies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . 133
Explicit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . 151
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .157
Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . .159
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . .199