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Critical zones : the science and politics of landing on earth / edited by Bruno Latour, Peter Weibel.
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English
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Karlsruhe, Germany : ZKM/Center for Art and Media ; Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, 2020
©2020
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472 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), charts (some color), maps (some color) ; 32 cm
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Ecology in art
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Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe
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Latour, Bruno
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"Artists and writers portray the disorientation of a world facing climate change.This monumental volume, drawn from a 2020 exhibition at the ZKM Center for Art and Media, portrays the disorientation of life in world facing climate change. It traces this disorientation to the disconnection between two different definitions of the land on which modernizing humans live: the sovereign nation from which they derive their rights, and another one, hidden, from which they gain their wealth--the land they live on, and the land they live from. Charting the land they will inhabit, they find not a globe, not the iconic "blue marble," but a series of critical zones--patchy, heterogenous, discontinuous. With short pieces, longer essays, and more than 500 illustrations, the contributors explore the new landscape on which it may be possible for humans to land--what it means to be "on Earth," whether the critical zone, the Gaia, or the terrestrial. They consider geopolitical conflicts and tools redesigned for the new "geopolitics of life forms." The "thought exhibition" described in this book can opens a fictional space to explore the new climate regime; the rest of the story is unknown. Contributors include: Dipesh Chakrabarty, Pierre Charbonnier, Emanuele Coccia, Vinciane Despret, Jerome Gaillarde, Donna Haraway, Joseph Leo Koerner, Timothy Lenton, Richard Powers, Simon Schaffer, Isabelle Stengers, Bronislaw Szerszynski, Jan A. Zalasiewicz, Siegfried Zielinski. Exhibition: ZKM - Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany (23.05.2020-28.02.2021)."--Provided by publisher.
Notes
Date of publication from preface by the editors (page 10).
Published on the occasion of the exhibition: Critical Zones: Observations for Earthly Politics at ZKM/Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, May 23, 2020-February 28, 2021.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Preface by the editors and acknowledgments / Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel
Welcome address of the German Federal Cultural Foundation / Hortensia Völckers and Kirsten Hass
Seven objections against landing on Earth
I. Disorientation. When the global reveals the planetary: Bruno Latour interviews Dipesh Chakrabarty / Bruno Latour and Dipesh Chakrabarty
For the love of corals: life in the ruins of the museum / Sonia Levy
The Anthropocene square meter / Jan Zalasiewicz
The infinity of the Anthropocene: a (hi)story with a thousand names / Clémence Hallé and Anne-Sophie Milon
Climate snap: at the Sign of the White Flower / Robert Boschman
Landing on the terrestrial volcano / Karen Holmberg
Around the pluriverse in eight objects: cosmograms for the critical zone / John Tresch
The story so far / Richard Powers
II. Disconnected. "Where is your freedom now?" How the moderns became ubiquitous / Pierre Charbonnier
Extractivism in the Critical Zone / Paul Jobin
Uber Eats: how capitalism consumes the future / Timothy Mitchell
Domesticating soil in Earth's Critical Zone / Steve Banwart
Uranium City series on abandonment, two field trips / Robert Boschman
What on Earth does climate have to do with law and liberty? Revisiting Montesquieus Theory of Climate / Gerard de Vries
Landscape and hybrid sedimentology / Matthieu Duperrex
Words for a tongue we are losing / Stefanie Rau
Geognosy / Joseph Leo Koerner
III. Critical Zones. The Critical Zone, a buffer zone, the human habitat / Jérôme Gaillardet
Traveling through the Critical Zone / Alexandra Arènes
The Strengbach Catchment Environmental Observatory: a needful key for a global investigation of the Critical Zone / Marie-Claire Pierret
The Critical Zone paradigm - a personal view / Susan L. Brantley
Ansichten der Calzone: views of the Calhoun Critical Zone Observatory / Daniel D. Richter and Sharon A. Billings
The Critical Zone revelation: I am in the skin / William E. Dietrich
Exploring trees, soils, and microbes in the streets of Paris / Aleksandar Rankovic
Beware of precursors: how not to trace the history of the Critical Zone / Simmon Schaffer
Sara Aze as the sculptor of Critical Zones / Bruno Latour
This planet which is not one: on the notion of Zone / Jeanne Etelain
IV. Gaia. What exactly is the role of Gaia? / Timothy M. Lenton and Sébastien Dutreuil
Distinguishing Gaia from the Earth system(s) / Timothy M. Lenton and Sébastien Dutreuil
Gaia is alive / Sébastien Dutreuil
Life in a bubble: the failure of Biosphere 2 as a total system / Bettina Korintenberg
1610 wood/cut: the Anthropocene, uprooted / Pauline Goul
The mechanical discovery of ultrastability / Alexander W. Schindler and Anne Schreiber
Wetness is everywhere; why do we see water somewhere? / Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha
The Star Trek universe: an idealized humanity in virtualized space / Ali Gharib
The world as organism and machine: Jesuit geophysics in the early modern era / Siegfried Zielinski
Recalling Humboldt's planet / Laura Dassow Walls
V. Terrestrial. The Earth won't let itself be watched / Isabelle Stengers
Tarabuco / Verónica Calvo Valenzuela
Freedom through easements / Sarah Vanuxem
Turning sovereignty upside down / Dorothea Condé and Pierre-Yves Condé
The point of view of the mountain / Estelle Zhong Mengual
Inhabiting the Phoncene with birds / Vinciane Despret
Sensorium of the earthbound / Johanna Ziebritzki
Museum of Natural Hisoty / Hanna Jurisch
Born from Earth: a new myth for earthbounds / Emilie Hache
VI. Divided. "We don't seem to live on the same planet" - a fictional planetarium / Bruno Latour
Embodied constellation: Reflection on the seven planets exercise / Mira Hirtz
Life as exodus / Nikolaj Schultz
Transhumanist eschatology / Daniel Irrgang
On the difficulty of animating the Earth / Simon Schaffer
Fabian in 1621, a divided soul / Yohji Suzuki
Nature is not your household / Emanuele Coccia
The promises of the new wetlands / Benedikte Zitouni
New climate, new class struggles / Nikolaj Schultz
Self-portrait in distress / Joseph Leo Koerner
Glossolalia: tidings from terrestrial tongues / Bettina Korintenberg, Rachel Libeskind, Robert Preusse, Stefanie Rau
VII. Depiction. Nature painting / Joseph Leo Koerner
Sensing a moving planet / Jennifer Gabrys
The grammar of action in the Critical Zone / Bronislaw Szerszynski
Beyond individuals: Lynn Margulis and her holobiontic worlds / Lena Reitschuster
Depicting holobiont / Olga Lukyanova
How to visualize cells as overlapping trajectories of profiles / Michael Flower
The datafication of forests? From the Wood Wide Web to the Internet of trees / Jonathan Gray
Soil care network: caring for soil as building relations / Anna Krzywoszynska
Trajectories of modernization in Russia: artists recalibrating the Sensorium / Daria Mille
The skin of the world / Pierre Wat
VIII. Suspended. My Earth odyssey / Peter Weibel
Observatories for terrestrial politics: sensing the Critical Zones / Martin Guinard and Bettina Korintenberg
Neo Rauch's unknown masterpiece / Bruno Latour
Arts of inhabiting: ancient and new theaters of the world / Frédérique Aït-Touati
Carrier bags for Critical Zones / Donna Haraway
Authors' biographies
Works in the exhibition Critical Zones: observatories for Earthly politics
Index of names.
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Science and politics of landing on earth
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0262044455 ((paperback))
9780262044455 ((paperback))
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2020930278
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1140703936
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