ISBN:
9780745682815
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 240 Seiten)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Evans, Brad, 1974 - Resilient life
DDC:
338.91
Keywords:
Crises -- Political aspects
;
Crisies -- Economic aspects
;
Economic development projects -- Evaluation
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Politik
;
Gefahr
;
Katastrophe
;
Resilienz
Abstract:
What does it mean to live dangerously? This is not just a philosophical question or an ethical call to reflect upon our own individual recklessness. It is a deeply political issue, fundamental to the new doctrine of 'resilience' that is becoming a key term of art for governing planetary life in the 21st Century. No longer should we think in terms of evading the possibility of traumatic experiences. Catastrophic events, we are told, are not just inevitable but learning experiences from which we have to grow and prosper, collectively and individually. Vulnerability to threat, injury and loss has
Description / Table of Contents:
Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; 1: Anthropocene; All Too Human; Sublime Habitus; A Fallible Existence; Collective Amnesia; Whose Survivability?; 2: Insecure by Design; The Life of Late Liberalism; Evacuating the Social; The Posthuman; The Valorization of Adaptability; Connecting with Danger; 3: The Poverty of Vulnerability; Sustainable Recoveries; Uncommon Futures; Debasing the Subject; The Margins of Existence; Actually Existing Resourcefulness; 4: Living Dangerously; The Anxious Mass; The Full Life Crisis; The Tragedy of Vulnerability; Violently Exposed
Description / Table of Contents:
Premetic ViolenceNihilism Unbound; 5: Atmos; Beyond Bios; The Politics of Atmosphere; A Pathological Earth; Atmosis; 6: Endgames; The Coming Catastrophe; The Truth of Catastrophe; Catastrophism; Dead Zones; The Last Empire; 7: The Art of Politics; More Than Human; Life as a Work of Art; Exhausted by Suffering; The Politics of Prophecy; Beyond the End of Times; End of a Start; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index
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