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Title Critical zones : the science and politics of landing on earth / edited by Bruno Latour, Peter Weibel
Published Karlsruhe, Germany : ZKM/Center for Art and Media ; Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, [2020]
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Description 472 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), charts (some color), maps (some color) ; 32 cm
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
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. 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 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Ecology in art -- Exhibitions
Climatic changes in art -- Exhibitions
Ecology in art -- Philosophy
Climatic changes -- Philosophy
Natural history -- Exhibitions
Natural history.
Climatic changes in art.
Ecology in art.
Kritik
Kunst
Ökologie
Philosophie
Politik
Umweltkrise
Wissenschaft
SUBJECT Earth (Planet) -- Miscellanea -- Exhibitions
Earth (Planet) -- In art -- Exhibitions
Subject Earth (Planet)
Genre/Form Exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
Author Latour, Bruno, editor
Weibel, Peter, editor
Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, host institution
LC no. 2020930278
ISBN 0262044455
9780262044455
Other Titles Science and politics of landing on earth