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Informationen zum Autor Frederic Neyrat is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is editor of Alienocene , an online journal that charts the environmental humanities and contemporary theory. His first book in English (following thirteen in French) is Atopias: Manifesto for a Radical Existentialism (Fordham, 2018). Klappentext This book contributes to the environmental humanities field by offering an analysis of the Anthropocene fantasy: the idea that the Anthropocene is an opportunity to remake our terrestrial environment thanks to the power of technology. The author argues that the earth always escapes the human desire to remake and master it. Zusammenfassung This book contributes to the environmental humanities field by offering an analysis of the Anthropocene fantasy: the idea that the Anthropocene is an opportunity to remake our terrestrial environment thanks to the power of technology. The author argues that the earth always escapes the human desire to remake and master it. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction : Reconstructing the Earth? 1 Part I. The Mirror of the Anthropocene: Geoengineering, Terraforming, and Earth Stewardship The Copenhagen Chiasm 25 1. The Screen of Geoengineering 27 2. The Mirror of the Anthropocene 34 3. Terraforming: Reconstructing the Earth, Recreating Life 45 4. The Logic of Geopower: Power, Management, and Earth Stewardship 56 Part II. The Future of Eco-constructivism: From Resilience to Accelerationism Turbulence, Resilience, Distance 71 5. An Ecology of Resilience: The Political Economy of Turbulence 73 6. The Extraplanetary Environment of the Ecomodernists 83 7. The "Political Ecology" of Bruno Latour: No Environments, No Limits, No Monsters (Not Even Fear) 90 8. Anaturalism and Its Ghosts 105 9. The Technological Fervor of Eco-constructivism 118 Part III. An Ecology of Separation: Natured, Naturing, Denaturing Object, Subject, Traject 133 10. Naturing Nature and Natured Nature 135 11. The Real Nature of an Ecology of Separation 146 12. Denaturing Nature 155 13. The Unconstructable Earth 165 Conclusion : What Is to Be Unmade? 179 Notes 189 Index 225 ...
