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Environmental Humanities on the Brink
- The Vanitas Hypothesis
Af: Vincent Bruyere
Engelsk
Bogcover for Environmental Humanities on the Brink af Vincent Bruyere, 9781503630505
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
176
ISBN-13:
9781503630505
Indbinding:
Hardback
ISBN-10:
1503630501
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Udg. Dato:
19 sep 2023
Størrelse i cm:
15,3 x 22,4 x 1,7
Forlag:
Oplagsdato:
19 sep 2023
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Environmental Humanities on the Brink

- The Vanitas Hypothesis
Af: Vincent Bruyere
Engelsk
Hardback 2023
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Hardback
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In this experimental work of ecocriticism, Vincent Bruyere confronts the seeming pointlessness of the humanities amid spectacularly negative future projections of environmental collapse.

The vanitas paintings of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries dazzlingly depict heaps of riches alongside skulls, shells, and hourglasses. Sometimes even featuring the illusion that their canvases are peeling away, vanitas images openly declare their own pointlessness in relation to the future. This book takes inspiration from the vanitas tradition to fearlessly contemplate the stakes of the humanities in the Anthropocene present, when the accumulated human record could well outlast the climate conditions for our survival. Staging a series of unsettling encounters with early modern texts and images whose claims of relevance have long since expired, Bruyere experiments with the interpretive affordances of allegory and fairytale, still life and travelogues. Each chapter places a vanitas motif—canvas, debris, toxics, paper, ark, meat, and light—in conversation with stories and images of the Anthropocene, from the Pleistocene Park geoengineering project to toxic legacies to in-vitro meat.

Considering questions of quiet erasure and environmental memory, this book argues we ought to keep reading, even by the flickering light of extinction.

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Engelsk
Sider:
176
ISBN-13:
9781503630505
Indbinding:
Hardback
ISBN-10:
1503630501
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
19 sep 2023
Størrelse i cm:
15,3 x 22,4 x 1,7
Forlag:
Oplagsdato:
19 sep 2023
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