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Mastery of non-mastery in the age of meltdown / Michael Taussig

Taussig, Michael T., 1940- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2020

220 Seiten

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index

2005

Erscheint auch als: Mastery of Non-Mastery in the Age of Meltdown / Taussig, Michael T. (Online-Ausgabe)

978-0-226-68458-1 (cloth); 978-0-226-69867-0 (paperback); 978-0-226-69870-0 (e-book)

2019046588

OCoLC: 1176504211     

LC 51000-LC 51730      Ähnliche Literatur

GF21

304.201

*Humanökologie ; Anthropozän ; Anpassung      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Human ecology -- Philosophy ; Nature and civilization ; Civilization, Modern -- 21st century ; Human ecology in art

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.

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"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"--