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Critical zones : the science and politics of landing on earth / edited by Bruno Latour, Peter Weibel.

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Critical zones : the science and politics of landing on earth / edited by Bruno Latour, Peter Weibel.
Publication
Karlsruhe, Germany : ZKM Center for Art and Media ; Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, [2020]

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Additional Authors
  • Latour, Bruno,
  • Weibel, Peter,
  • ZKM Institut für Medien und Wirtschaft, host institution.
Description
472 pages : illustrations (some color); 32 cm
Summary
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. 0With 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.00Contributors 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.00Exhibition: ZKM - Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany (23.05.2020-28.02.2021).
Subject
  • Climatic changes > Philosophy
  • Climatic changes in art > Exhibitions
  • Criticism
  • Ecology in art > Exhibitions
  • Ecology in art > Philosophy
  • Philosophy
  • Politik
  • Wissenschaft
Note
  • 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, 2020.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Call Number
N8217.E28
ISBN
  • 0262044455
  • 9780262044455
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries