Description: Further DetailsTitle: ExterraneanCondition: NewSubtitle: Extraction in the Humanist AnthropoceneISBN-10: 0823284212EAN: 9780823284214ISBN: 9780823284214Publisher: Fordham University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 03/05/2019Description: Exterranean concerns the extraction of stuff from the Earth, a process in which matter goes from being sub- to exterranean. By opening up a rich archive of nonmodern texts and images from across Europe, this work offers a bracing riposte to several critical trends in ecological thought. 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. The book thus maps the material and immaterial connections between the Earth from which we extract, the human and nonhuman agents of extraction, and the extracted matter with which we live daily.Eschewing the self-congratulatory claims of posthumanism, Usher instead elaborates a productive tension between the materially-situated homo of nonmodern humanism and the abstract and aggregated anthropos of the Anthropocene. In dialogue with Michel Serres, Bruno Latour, and other interdisciplinary work in the environmental humanities, Usher shows what premodern material can offer to contemporary theory. Examining textual and visual culture alike, Usher explores works by Ronsard, Montaigne, and Rabelais, early scientific works by Paracelsus and others, as well as objects, engravings, buildings, and the Salt Mines of Wieliczka. Both historicist and speculative in approach, Exterranean lays the groundwork for a comparative ecocriticism that reaches across and untranslates theoretical affordances between periods and languages.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Phillip John UsherGenre: Science Nature & MathBook Series: Meaning SystemsTopic: Technology & EngineeringRelease Year: 2019 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Exterranean
Title: Exterranean
Subtitle: Extraction in the Humanist Anthropocene
ISBN-10: 0823284212
EAN: 9780823284214
ISBN: 9780823284214
Release Date: 03/05/2019
Release Year: 2019
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Science Nature & Math
Topic: Technology & Engineering
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
Publication Name: Exterranean : Extraction in the Humanist Anthropocene
Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publication Year: 2019
Subject: Renaissance, Philosophy & Social Aspects, Ecology, History
Item Height: 0.7 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 13.3 Oz
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Nature, Technology & Engineering, Science
Author: Phillip John Usher
Item Length: 8.9 in
Series: Meaning Systems Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
