Fuel - A Speculative Dictionary

Klappentext Karen Pinkus is professor of Italian and comparative literature at Cornell University and chair of the Faculty Advisory Board of the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future. She has widely written on climate change and the humanities, as well as on literary theory, visual arts, Italian culture, and cinema. Her books include Bodily Regimes: Italian Advertising under Fascism (Minnesota, 1995) and Alchemical Mercury: A Theory of Ambivalence. Zusammenfassung Fuel isan idiosyncratic, speculative dictionary of fuels, real and imagined,historical and futuristic, hopeless and utopian. Drawing on literature, film,and scientific treatises-most produced long before "climate change" was incirculation- Fuel

Product details

• Authors: Karen Pinkus
• Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2017
• EAN: 9780816699988
• ISBN: 978-0-8166-9998-8
• No. of pages: 152
• Series: PostHumanities; PostHumanities (Paperback); Posthumanities
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias