Future Remains :A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene
Future Remains :A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene
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Published:
12 June, 2018
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780226508795 |
| ISBN10 | 022650879X |
| Number Of Pages | 224 |
| Item Weight | 397 g |
| Product Dimensions | 17 x 24 x 2 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | The University of Chicago Press |
| Format | paperback |
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This book addresses the vexing issues posed by the Anthropocene--the idea that humans have become a bio-physical force of nature--in an excitingly original way by showing how the material objects of our time will one day become uncanny future fossils. Its imaginative sweep feels as futuristic as science fiction, yet each object is located deftly within its historical and contemporary context. The contributors make up a who's who of modern scholarship. It should become the go-to book for understanding the implications and significance of the most challenging idea and problem of our time. --Iain McCalman, author of The Reef: A Passionate History
Objects, cabinets, remains: here is an assembling of wonders from a damaged planet, brought together in order to cultivate the arts of remembering effectively, so as to care seriously, to care for, to care with. Each essay is a provocation to curiosity in the sense of incitement to feel, know, care, and respond. Writing and images converge to make objects present so as to render remaining futures vital. --Donna Haraway, author of Staying with the Trouble
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Author's Bio
Gregg Mitman is the Vilas Research and William Coleman Professor of History of Science, Medical History, and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of Breathing Space: How Allergies Shape Our Lives and Landscapes and coeditor of Documenting the World: Film, Photography, and the Scientific Record, the latter also published by the University of Chicago Press. Marco Armiero is associate professor of environmental history and the director of the Environmental Humanities Lab at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. He is the author of A Rugged Nation: Mountains and the Making of Italy and coeditor of Nature and History in Modern Italy and A History of Environmentalism: Local Struggles, Global Histories. Robert S. Emmett is visiting assistant professor of environmental studies at Roanoke College, Virginia. He is the author of Cultivating Environmental Justice: A Literary History of US Garden Writing.