Bleak Joys: Aesthetics of Ecology and Impossibility

225 Pages·2020·5.667 MB·English

by  Matthew Fuller, Olga Goriunova

Matt hew Fuller and Olga Goriunova
BLE AK JOYS
Aesthetics of Ecology & Impossibility
Bleak Joys
Cary Wolfe, Series Editor
53 B leak Joys: Aesthetics of Ecology and Impossibility
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52 V ariations on Media Thinking
Siegfried Zielinski
51 A esthesis and Perceptronium: On the Entanglement of
Sensation, Cognition, and Matter
Alexander Wilson
50 A nthropocene Poetics: Deep Time, Sacrifice Zones, and
Extinction
David Farrier
49 M etaphysical Experiments: Physics and the Invention of
the Universe
Bjørn Ekeberg
48 D ialogues on the Human Ape
Laurent Dubreuil and Sue Savage- Rumbaugh
47 E lements of a Philosophy of Technology: On the
Evolutionary History of Culture
Ernst Kapp
46 B iology in the Grid: Graphic Design and the Envisioning
of Life
Phillip Thurtle
45 N eurotechnology and the End of Finitude
Michael Haworth
44 L ife: A Modern Invention
Davide Tarizzo
43 B ioaesthetics: Making Sense of Life in Science and the Arts
Carsten Strathausen
42 C reaturely Love: How Desire Makes Us More and Less
Than Human
Dominic Pettman
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Aesthetics of Ecology and Impossibility
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An earlier version of chapter 1 was published as “Devastation,” in On General Ecology:
The New Ecological Paradigm in the Neocybernetic Age, ed. Erich Hoerl and James Burton
(London: Bloomsbury, 2017); reprinted by permission of Bloomsbury Academic,
an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. An earlier version of chapter 4 was published
as “Worse Luck,” in Revisiting Normativity with Deleuze, ed. Rosi Braidotti and
Patricia Pisters (London: Bloomsbury, 2012); reprinted by permission of
Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Fuller, Matthew, author.| Goriunova, Olga, author.
Bleak joys : aesthetics of ecology and impossibility / Matthew Fuller and Olga Goriunova.
Description: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2019. |
Series: Posthumanities ; 53 | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Identifiers: LCCN 2018061114 (print) | ISBN 978-1-5179-0552-1 (hc) |
ISBN 978-1-5179-0553-8 (pb)
Subjects: LCSH: Environment (Aesthetics) | Philosophy of nature.
Classification: LCC BH301.E58 F85 2019 (print) | DDC 111/.85—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018061114
Dedicated to
Varvara
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Contents
Acknowledgments / ix
Introduction / xi
Devastation / 1
Anguish / 25
Irresolvability / 51
Luck / 75
Plant / 93
Home / 121
Coda / 155
Notes / 161
Index / 185
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Acknowledgments
Many people and places have provided contexts in which we have been
able to develop this work, and we would especially like to thank Alexandra
Anikina, Cecilia Åsberg, Rosi Braidotti, James Burton, Olga Cmielewska,
Geoff Cox, Jennifer Gabrys, Annie Goh, Erich Hoerl, Patricia Pisters,
Margerita Radomska, Bev Skeggs, and Zooetics— Nomeda and Gediminas
Urbonas. Doug Armato, Gabriel Levin, and Cary Wolfe have each been
immensely supportive and made it a pleasure to work with the University
of Minnesota Press and the Posthumanities series.
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