Reactivating Elements

Chemistry, Ecology, Practice
Herausgeber: Papadopoulos, Dimitris

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The contributors to Reactivating Elements examine chemicals as they mix with soil, air, water, and fire to shape Earth's troubled ecologies today. They invoke the elements with all their ambivalences as chemical categories, material substances, social forms, forces and energies, cosmological entities, and epistemic objects. Engaging with the nonlinear historical significance of elemental thought across fields-chemistry, the biosciences, engineering, physics, science and technology studies, the environmental humanities, ecocriticism, and cultural studies-the contributors examine the relationship between chemistry and ecology, probe the logics that render wind as energy, excavate affective histories of ubiquitous substances such as plastics and radioactive elements, and chart the damage wrought by petrochemical industrialization. Throughout, the volume illuminates how elements become entangled with power and control, coloniality, racism, and extractive productivism while exploring alternative paths to environmental destruction. In so doing, it rethinks the relationship between the elements and the elemental, human and more-than-human worlds, today's damaged ecosystems and other ecologies to come. Contributors. Patrick Bresnihan, Tim Choy, Joseph Dumit, Cori Hayden, Stefan Helmreich, Joseph Masco, Michelle Murphy, Natasha Myers, Dimitris Papadopoulos, María Puig de la Bellacasa, Astrid Schrader, Isabelle Stengers

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 596g
• ISBN-13: 9781478013440
• ISBN-10: 1478013443
• Artikelnr.: 61697050

Autorenporträt

Dimitris Papadopoulos, María Puig del la Bellacasa, and Natasha Myers, editors

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction. Elements: From Cosmology to Episteme and Back / Dimitris
Papadopoulos, Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, and Natasha Myers  1
1. Receiving the Gift: Earthly Events, Chemical Invariants, and Elemental
Powers / Isabelle Stengers  18
2. Chemicals, Ecology, and Reparative Justice / Dimitris Papadopoulos  34
3. Elementary Forms of Elementary Forms: Old, New, and Wavy / Stefan
Helmreich  70
4. Substance as Method: Bromine, for Example / Joseph Dumit  84
5. Elemental Ghosts, Haunted Carbon Imaginaries, and Living Matter at the
Edge of Life / Astrid Schrader  108
6. The Artificial World / Joseph Masco  131
7. Tilting at Windmills / Patrick Bresnihan  151
8. Crowding the Elements / Cori Hayden  176
9. Embracing Breakdown: Soil Ecopoethics and the Ambivalences of
Remediation / Maria Puig de la Bellcasa  196
10. Externality, Breathers, Conspiracy: Forms for Atmospheric Reckoning /
Tim Choy  231
11. Reimagining Chemicals, With and Against Technoscience / Michelle
Murphy  257
Contributors  280
Index  285