{"product_id":"beyond-the-worlds-end-9781478009573","title":"Beyond the Worlds End","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eBeyond the World''s End\u003c\/i\u003e T. J. Demos explores cultural practices that provide radical propositions for living in a world beset by environmental and political crises. Rethinking relationships between aesthetics and an expanded political ecology that foregrounds just futurity, Demos examines how contemporary artists are diversely addressing urgent themes, including John Akomfrah''s cinematic entanglements of racial capitalism with current environmental threats, the visual politics of climate refugees in work by Forensic Architecture and Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman, and moving images of Afrofuturist climate justice in projects by Arthur Jafa and Martine Syms. Demos considers video and mixed-media art that responds to resource extraction in works by Angela Melitopoulos, Allora \u0026amp; Calzadilla, and Ursula Biemann, as well as the multispecies ecologies of Terike Haapoja and Public Studio. Throughout Demos contends that contemporary intersections of aesthetics and politics, as exemplifi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“T. J. Demos has for some time charted intertwining artistic and activist responses to environmental catastrophe, and here he is at his best. This book is powerful and necessary.” -- Julia Bryan-Wilson, author of * Fray: Art and Textile Politics *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eBeyond the World's End \u003c\/i\u003erethinks the complex relationship between political ecology and artistic practice. Written in the clear, provocative prose for which T. J. Demos is already widely admired, this important book operates within the framework of environmental and, by extension, climate justice and provides a glimmer of hope in the midst of the current catastrophe.” -- Alexander Alberro, Barnard College\u003cbr\u003e\"Amply illustrated and well indexed, the book blends nature-culture binaries and lays out the possibilities for lives beyond the world’s end. This pithy, well-researched volume includes an introduction, seven chapters, and notes, and it will interest students of Afrofuturism, art history, ecofeminism, ecology, social justice, visual culture, and myriad related subjects. Highly recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty, professionals.\"\u003cbr\u003e   -- J. Decker * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e“Demos...offer[s] a wealth of information on environmentalist artists and ecocritical thinkers who may not be presented to art audiences elsewhere. [His] venturesome examples of art historical ecocriticism model methodologies of engagement that challenge scholars to apply their own talents and imaginations toward new practices of art history for our time.” -- Suzaan Boettger * Art Bulletin *\u003cbr\u003e“Demos’ main contribution to the fields of ecology, art history, and geo-politics is the tangible methods he offers against catastrophism. . . . In \u003ci\u003eBeyond\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ethe World’s End\u003c\/i\u003e, Demos has produced not only a timely teaching tool, but also a touchstone for the ongoing writings and makings of the not-yet.” -- Kate Keohane * Art History *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eBeyond the World’s End \u003c\/i\u003eis a text of impressive scope and depth, whose thematic urgency needs no introduction. . . . If, as in Fredric Jameson’s famous adage, it is easier to imagine the end of the world than it is the end of capitalism, Demos charts a path here for imagining both, and a different world that can be brought into being in what lies beyond these ends.” -- Matthias Kispert * Moving Image Review \u0026amp; Art Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations  vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. The World's End, and Beyond  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Feeding the Ghost: John Akomfrah's \u003ci\u003eVertigo Sea\u003c\/i\u003e  23\u003cbr\u003e 2. Blackout: The Necropolitics of Extraction  43\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Visual Politics of Climate Refugees  68\u003cbr\u003e 4. Gaming the Environment: On the Media Ecology of Public Studio  96\u003cbr\u003e 5. Animal Cosmopolitics: The Art of Gustafsson\u0026amp;Haapoga  116\u003cbr\u003e 6. To Save a World: Geoengineering, Conflictual Futurisms, and the Unthinkable  137\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Great Transition: The Arts and Radical System Change  163\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  195\u003cbr\u003e Notes  199\u003cbr\u003e Index  249","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408985432407,"sku":"9781478009573","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478009573.jpg?v=1730504971","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/beyond-the-worlds-end-9781478009573","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}