Mastery of non-mastery in the age of meltdown
Michael Taussig
Bok · Engelsk · 2020
| Omfang | 220 sider
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| Opplysninger | Smoke and Mirrors -- Mimetic excess -- The exposition of the non-dogmatic cannot be dogmatic -- Nietzsche's tuning fork, Kafka's sirens -- Twilight of the idols -- Catastrophe : the solar inversion of satanic denial -- Metamorphic sublimity -- Re-enchantment of nature -- In your bones you know otherwise -- Planetarium -- Sunset -- In the beginning Was the firefly -- The sun Is an Indian shaman -- Lightning -- Is magic domination of nature? -- The alpha and omega of all mastery -- Art versus art -- Subterranean cities of sleep -- Magic hour -- Julio Reyes's phantom ship. - "For a long time, we humans have excelled in mimicking nature with the goal of exploiting it. Now, with the existential threat of global climate change on the horizon, the ever-provocative Michael Taussig asks what it would take to change ourselves so as to save our world. Acknowledging the possibility of collapse and our all-too-human impotence in the face of accelerating disaster, this book is not solely a reflection on our tragic condition but also a theoretical effort to reckon with those human faculties that have fed our ambition for dominance over nature. At stake is an ultimate undoing of our sense of control--a "mastery of non-mastery." Animated by the urgency of a planet approaching meltdown, Taussig captures our moment, and all its attendant mythologies, with luminescent clarity"--
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| ISBN | 9780226684581. - 9780226698670
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