Joshua Wodak

Petrified (eBook, ePUB)

Living During a Rupture of Life on Earth

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Lyrical, playful, and deadly serious, Petrified brings our ideas about the unfolding climate crisis into play with Earth's ability to unleash its own crises, time, and time again...

A rupture of life on Earth is currently unfolding. What, then, does this rupture signify, not only in terms of being alive during such an upheaval, but also in terms of being alive to upheaval itself? Petrified: Living During a Rupture of Life on Earth takes the reader on a journey deep into the nature of our home, to give us the tools to learn how, in the middle of that rupture, to comport ourselves with honesty, clarity, culpability and intelligence.

The purpose of this journey is straightforward: to formulate the basis of a philosophy for living during this rupture of life on earth. A philosophy for living in the twenty-first-and-last century of life as we have known it on our planet. A toolkit, as it were, for living at the confluence between being petrified at the prospect of extinction, and becoming petrified in the most real and physical sense.

Lyrical, playful, and deadly serious, Petrified aims to provide a new worldview for a new world coming, creating a present-day fable about achieving fidelity to the vicissitudes of the cosmos. Wherein, the book asks: if desperate times call for desperate measures, how can the response be measured against its only true correlate - the cosmos?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: De Gruyter
• Seitenzahl: 374
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783111383361
• Artikelnr.: 73436983

Autorenporträt

Dr Joshua Wodak is an artist, writer, and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, Australia.

Rezensionen

"Joshua Wodak has in this refreshing and entirely original analysis of Petrified: Living During a Rupture of Life on Earth found a way to engage our understandings and passions in the face of the grimmest potential catastrophe that our human-occupied planet has ever faced. To do so, he has set out to arrest even the most disengaged, soured, bored or indifferent of readers by making his environmental case using entirely novel means of writing and communication. Combining an astonishing breadth and depth of knowledge in environmental science, synthetic biology, ecology, psychology, art, philosophy, and social theory he never bores or patronizes his readers. Instead, he presents us with a dazzling kaleidoscope of wit, humour, comedy, visual, literary and musical examples that entice and inspire his readers to think and care about global climate change in entirely fresh and exhilarating ways." - Iain McCalman, Emeritus Professor, Department of History, University of Sydney

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"To be petrified in our Anthropocene present means to experience fear and to be frozen in inescapable decline. Joshua Wodak's lively and erudite book protests against this fossilization with recourse to rock lyrics, bioengineering projects, poetry, utopian ideas, Far Side cartoons, and a dynamic understanding of earth systems and earth history. The result is a dizzying portrait of what it's like to live in our unstable present on our changing planet." - Steve Mentz, Professor of English, St. John's University, United States of America