Novel Ecologies
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-83773-4 (ISBN)
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Allison Carruth’s Novel Ecologies shows how the tech industry has taken up the wilderness mythologies that shaped one strain of American environmentalism over the last century. Coining this twenty-first-century environmental imagination Nature Remade, Carruth describes a distinctly West Coast framework that is at once futuristic and backward-looking. Through three case studies (synthetic wildlife, the digital cloud, and space colonization), the book shows Nature Remade to be a quasi-religious belief in venture capitalism and big tech. This paradigm thus imagines a future in which species, ecosystems, and entire planets are re-generated and re-created through engineering.
Novel Ecologies challenges the conviction that climate change and other environmental crises must be met with ever larger-scale forms of technological intervention. Against the new worlds conjured by Google, Meta, Open AI, Amazon, SpaceX, and a host of lesser-known start-ups, Carruth marshals writers and artists who imagine provisionally hopeful environmental futures while refusing to forget the histories that have made the world what it is. On this track of the book, Carruth discusses the works of Octavia Butler, Becky Chambers, Jennifer Egan, Ruth Ozeki, Craig Santos Perez, Tracy K. Smith, Jeff VanderMeer, Saya Woolfalk, and many more. Their novels, poems, installation artworks, and expressive media offer a speculative world built on livable communities rather than engineered lifeforms.
Allison Carruth is professor in the Effron Center for the Study of America and High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton University. She is the cofounder and faculty director of Blue Lab, an environmental media, art, and research group at Princeton. Since 2017, she has produced original environmental documentaries and multimedia story series in collaboration with filmmakers, journalists, artists, and others. She is the author of Global Appetites: American Power and the Literature of Food and coauthor with Amy L. Tigner of Literature and Food Studies.
List of Illustrations
Prologue
Introduction
1. A Tale for the Time Being
2. The Nature of Tech
3. A Psalm for the Wild-Built
4. Wilderness by Design
5. The Strange Bird
6. Life after Earth
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Works Cited
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 24.1.2025 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 20 color plates, 14 halftones |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 454 g |
| Themenwelt | Schulbuch / Wörterbuch |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-226-83773-4 / 0226837734 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-226-83773-4 / 9780226837734 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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