Terracene: A Crude Aesthetics

In Terracene Salar Mameni historicizes the popularization of the scientific notion of the Anthropocene alongside the emergence of the global war on terror. Mameni theorizes the Terracene as an epoch marked by a convergence of racialized militarism and environmental destruction. Both the Anthropocene...

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Main Author: Mameni, Salar (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham Duke University Press [2023]
Series:ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise : 38
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Online Access:DE-12
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Summary:In Terracene Salar Mameni historicizes the popularization of the scientific notion of the Anthropocene alongside the emergence of the global war on terror. Mameni theorizes the Terracene as an epoch marked by a convergence of racialized militarism and environmental destruction. Both the Anthropocene and the war on terror centered the antagonist figures of the Anthropos and the terrorist as responsible for epochal changes in the new geological and geopolitical world orders. In response, Mameni shows how the Terracene requires radically new engagements with terra (the earth), whose intelligence resides in matters such as oil and phenomena like earthquakes and fires. Drawing on the work of artists whose practices interrogate histories of settler-colonial and imperial interests in land and resources in Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Kuwait, Syria, Palestine, and other regions most affected by the war on terror, Mameni offers speculative paths into the aesthetics of the Terracene
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (248 pages)
ISBN:9781478027041
DOI:10.1515/9781478027041

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