Allan Stoekl is professor emeritus of French and comparative literature at Pennsylvania State University. His books include Bataille’s Peak: Energy, Religion, and Postsustainability (Minnesota, 2007) among others.
Contents
Introduction
First Order. Base Sustainability
1. Objects, Energy, the Chora
2. Animals, Scale, Death
3. Statues, Language, Machines
Second Order. Restricted Sustainability
4. Technocracy, Energy Economics, Utopia
5. Solar Architecture, Sadism, Heterogeneity
6. Anamorphoses of the Future
Third Order. General Sustainability
7. Sustainability’s Return
8. Marxism, Meditation, Consumption
9. The Dead, the Future: Scrounging and Gifting the Ruins
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
