Search Results - "Anthropocene"

The Power of Systems : How Policy Sciences Opened Up the Cold War World /

The power of systems : how policy sciences opened up the Cold War world /

by Rindzevičiūtė, Eglė

Table of Contents: “…The rise of system-cybernetic governmentality -- Grey eminences of the scientific-technical revolution -- Bridging East and West: the birth of IIASA -- Shaping a transnational systems community (1): networks and institutions -- Shaping a transnational systems community (2): family versus war room -- The East-West politics of global modelling -- From nuclear winter to the Anthropocene -- Acid rain: scientific expertise and governance across systemic divide -- The avant-garde of system-cybernetic governmentality.…”
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Thinking Like a Climate : Governing a City in Times of Environmental Change / by Knox, Hannah, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…Thinking Like a Climate -- Contact Zones -- Climate Change in Manchester: An Origin Story -- 41% and the Problem of Proportion -- Giving Climate a Body -- The Carbon Life of Buildings -- Footprints and Traces, or Learning to Think like a Climate -- Footprints, Objects, and the Endlessness of Relations -- Mitigation to Adaptation -- An Irrelevant Apocalypse: Futures, Models, and Scenarios -- Cities, Mayors, and Climate Change -- Stuck in Strategies -- Rematerializing Politics -- Test Houses and Vernacular Engineers -- Activist Devices and the Art of Politics -- Symptoms, Diagnoses, and the Politics of the Hack -- Conclusion: "Going Native" in the Anthropocene.…”
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Beyond sustainable : architecture's evolving environments of habitation / by Ludwig, Ryan

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The Wind ~ An Unruly Living by Bendik-Keymer, Jeremy, 1970-

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Transhumanism and posthumanism in twenty-first century narrative

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The international legal regime of areas beyond national jurisdiction current and future developments /

Table of Contents: “…Principles and objectives of the legal regime governing areas beyond national jurisdiction / Tullio Treves -- The seabed beyond the limits of national jurisdiction : general and institutional aspects / Tullio Scovazzi -- The concept of the common heritage of mankind : its viability as a management tool for deep-sea genetic resources / Nele Matz-Luck -- Entitlement to marine living resources in areas beyond national jurisdiction / Richard Barnes -- Property rights in areas beyond national jurisdiction : not too late for a propter debate / Andrew Serdy -- The anthropocene, autopoiesis, and the disingenuousness of the genuine link : addressing enforcement gaps in the legal regime for areas beyond national jurisdiction / Rosemary Rayfuse -- The contribution of the international tribunal for the law of the sea to international law / Helmut Tuerk.…”
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Climate Crisis, The : South African and Global Democratic Eco-Socialist Alternatives /

Table of Contents: “…The climate crisis and systemic alternatives -- The limits of capitalist solutions to the climate crisis -- The anthropocene and imerpeial ecocide -- The employment crisis, just transition and the universal basic income grant -- The rights of Mother Earth -- Buen Vivir: an alternative perspective from the peoples of the global south to the crisis of capitalist modernity -- Challenging the growth paradigm: Marx, Buddha and the pursuit of "happiness" -- Ubuntu and the struggle for an African eco-socialist alternative -- The climate crisis and the struggle for African food sovereignty -- The climate crisis and a "just transition" in South Africa -- Energy, labour and democracy in South Africa -- Capital, climate and the politics of nuclear procurement in South Africa -- Climate jobs at two minutes to midnight -- Deepening the just transition through food sovereignty and the solidarity economy -- Eco-capitalist crises in the "Blue Economy"…”
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Climate-adaptive design in high mountain villages : Ladakh in transition / by Clouse, Carey, 1979-

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The Wiley Blackwell companion to political geography /

Table of Contents: “…Molden -- Environment from determinism to the anthropocene / Simon Dalby -- Financial crises / Brett Christophers -- Migration / Michael Samers -- Everyday political geographies / Sara Fregonese -- Academic capitalism and the geopolitics of knowledge / Anssi Paasi.…”

Heterotopia and globalisation in the twenty-first century /

Table of Contents: “…Interrupting globalisation : heterotopia in the twenty-first century / Daan Wesselman, Irina Souch, and Simon Ferdinand -- Other spaces for the Anthropocene : heterotopia as dis-closure of the (un)common / Lieven de Cauter -- H is for heterotopia : temporalities of the "new nature writing" / Cathy Elliott -- Disruptive elders : enacting heterotopias of the riverbank / Mary Gearey -- Agricultural heterotopia : the Soybean Republic(s) of South America / Gladys Pierpauli and Mariano Turzi -- "Interesting and incompatible relationships" : force and form in Pedro Costa's Porous City / Adam Kildare Cottrel -- Heterotopia and perspective : towards a different imagining of landscape / Henrietta Simson -- Of tourists and refugees : the global beach in the twenty-first century / Ursula Kluwick and Virginia Richter -- Airbnb as an ephemeral space : towards an analysis of a digital heterotopia / Elham Bahmanteymouri and Farzaneh Haghighi -- New communication technologies and the transformations of space : lessons from Michel Serres' Thumbelina / Peter Johnson -- The prison as playground : global scripts and heterotopic vertigo in Prison escape / Hanneke Stuit -- Dramatic heterotopia : the participatory spectacle of Burning Man / Graham St. …”
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Aquaculture landscapes : fish farming and the public realm / by Ezban, Michael

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After the death of nature : Carolyn Merchant and the future of human-nature relations /

Table of Contents: “…-- Carolyn Merchant's the death of nature: launching new trajectories in interdisciplinary research -- From a partnership to a fidelity ethic: framing an old story for a new time -- Bewitching nature -- Leading and misleading metaphors: from organism to anthropocene -- Part II: Environmental history: Personal, political, and professional: the impact of Carolyn Merchant's life and leadership -- Carolyn Merchant and the ecological Indian -- All our relations: reflections on women, nature, and science -- The other scientific revolution: Calvinist scientists and the origins of ecology -- Carolyn Merchant and the environmental humanities in Scandinavia -- Part III: The politics of landscapes, embodiment, and epistemologies: Landscape, science, and social reproduction: the long-reaching influence of Carolyn Merchant's insight -- The spiritual politics of the Kendeng Mountains versus the global cement industry1 -- Toward a political ecology of environmental discourse -- Environmental history and the materialization of bodies -- A mighty tree is Carolyn Merchant -- Afterward -- Index.…”
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Literature and sustainability : Exploratory essays /

Table of Contents: “…The millers' tales: sustainability, the arts and the watermill / Jayne Elisabeth Archer, Howard Thomas and Richard Marggraf Turley -- Sustenance from the past: precedents to sustainability in nineteenth-century literature and culture / John Parham -- Deep sustainability: ecopoetics, enjoyment and ecstatic hospitality / Kate Rigby -- Recycling materials, recycling lives: cardboard publishers in Latin America / Lucy Bell -- Sustainability after extinction: on last animals and future bison / Joshua Schuster -- The twilight of the Anthropocene: sustaining literature / Claire Colebrook -- Collapse, resilience, stability and sustainability in Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy / Dana Phillips -- "The shadow of the future made all the difference": sustainability in Kim Stanley Robinson's Science in the Capital trilogy / Chris Pak -- The unsustainable aesthetics of sustainability: the sense of an ending in Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods / Adeline Johns-Putra -- A modest proposal for a less natural lifestyle: the paradoxes of sustainability and Michel Houellebecq's The Possibility of an Island / Hannes Bergthaller -- Jorie Graham's Sea Change: the poetics of sustainability and the politics of what we're sustaining / Matthew Griffiths -- Circles unrounded: sustainability, subject and necessity in Yann Martel's Life of Pi / Louise Squire.…”
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After discourse : things, affects, ethics /

Table of Contents: “…Bryant -- In the presence of things / Jeff Malpas -- Thick speech and deep time in the Anthropocene / Robert Macfarlane -- On the face of things / Torgeir Rinke Bangstad -- Affects : sensing things / Mats Burström -- The view from somewhere : liquid, geologic, and queer bodies / Denis Byrne -- Stranded stones and settled species : affect and effects of ballast / Mats Burström -- Out of the day, time and life : phenomenology and cavescapes / Hein B. …”
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Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics : Artists Reimagine the Arctic and Antarctic / by Bloom, Lisa E., 1958-

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The Digital Dionysus: Nietzsche and the Network-Centric Condition /

Table of Contents: “…Nietzsche and Networks, Nietzschean Networks: The Digital Dionysus / Dan Mellamphy & Nandita Biswas Mellamphy -- Digital Alexandrians: Greek as Musical Code for Nietzsche and Kittler / Babette Babich -- The Internet as a Development from Descartes' Res Cogitans: How to Render It Dionysian / Horst Hutter -- Networked Nightmares: On Our Dionysian Post-Military Condition / Manabrata Guha -- A Philosophy of the Antichrist in the Time of the Anthropocenic Multitude: Preliminary Lexicon for the Conceptual Network / Gary Shapiro -- Occupying God's Shadow: Nietzsche's Eirōneia / Julian Reid -- Reading Nietzsche in the Wake of the 2008-9 War on Gaza / C. …”
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The Birth of Energy : Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work / by Daggett, Cara New, 1980-

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Digital Objects, Digital Subjects : Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Capitalism, Labour and Politics in the Age of Big Data /

Table of Contents: “…Digital capitalism and big data capitalism / Digital governance in the Anthropocene : the rise of the correlational machine / David Chandler -- Beyond big data capitalism, towards dialectical digital modernity : reflections on David Chandler's chapter ; Karl Marx in the age of big data capitalism / Christian Fuchs -- What is at stake in the critique of big data? …”
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Oil Fictions : World Literature and Our Contemporary Petrosphere /

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Waddenland Outstanding : History, Landscape and Cultural Heritage of the Wadden Sea Region /

Table of Contents: “…; Defining the Wadden Sea region in a geographical and historical context; Meindert Schroor; 3 The Wadden Sea region as a cultural landscape; History, heritage, management; Hans Renes; Part 2 The relationship between natural and cultural heritage; 4 Protecting the natural and cultural values of the Wadden Sea coast in the Anthropocene; An urgent call for integration; Jens Enemark, Ludwig Fischer and Karsten Reise.…”
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