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Title: After Nature Condition: New Subtitle: A Politics for the Anthropocene Author: Jedediah Purdy Format: Paperback ISBN-10: 0674979869 EAN: 9780674979864 ISBN: 9780674979864 Publisher: Harvard University Press Genre: Science Nature & Math Release Date: 19/02/2018 Description: An Artforum Best Book of the Year A Legal Theory Bookworm Book of the Year
Nature no longer exists apart from humanity. Henceforth, the world we will inhabit is the one we have made. Geologists have called this new planetary epoch the Anthropocene, the Age of Humans. The geological strata we are now creating record industrial emissions, industrial-scale crop pollens, and the disappearance of species driven to extinction. Climate change is planetary engineering without design. These facts of the Anthropocene are scientific, but its shape and meaning are questions for politics—a politics that does not yet exist. After Nature develops a politics for this post-natural world.
“After Nature argues that we will deserve the future only because it will be the one we made. We will live, or die, by our mistakes.” —Christine Smallwood, Harper’s
“Dazzling…Purdy hopes that climate change might spur yet another change in how we think about the natural world, but he insists that such a shift will be inescapably political… For a relatively slim volume, this book distills an incredible amount of scholarship—about Americans’ changing attitudes toward the natural world, and about how those attitudes might change in the future.” —Ross Andersen, The Atlantic Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 210mm Item Length: 140mm Release Year: 2018
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