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Book SynopsisWilliam E. Connolly links climate change, fascism, and the nature of truth to demonstrate the profound implications of the deep imbrication between planetary nonhuman processes and cultural developments.
Trade Review“As ever, William E. Connolly writes prophetically timely work. Even for those of us who read most everything he writes, this book installs fresh strategies, thematics, and illustrations in the vibrant assemblage of his oeuvre. It oscillates between a clarion call to all who have ears to hear as a manifesto for today and a philosophically nuanced, attractive meditation for an open plenary of moments. It shouldn't work. But it does.” -- Catherine Keller, author of * Political Theology of the Earth: Our Planetary Emergency and the Struggle for a New Public *
"This is one of William E. Connolly's most exhilarating books to date. In a riveting exploration of planetary volatility and complex entanglements of human and nonhuman agencies and forces, he moves beyond the 'sociocentrism' of the humanities, human sciences, and contemporary politics in ways that are distinctive and urgent. A searching and brilliant contribution." -- Romand Coles, author of * Visionary Pragmatism: Radical and Ecological Democracy in Neoliberal Times *
"These essays are interventions designed to disrupt our affective confidence in the notion that the world offers us some distinctive and privileged place within it. Moreover, the essays present the world and its climate as given not to simple stability, but rather brimming with a host of amplifiers and triggers, forces and agents, irruptions and disturbances that create immediate and irrevocable change." -- Chadwick Jenkins * Popmatters *
"Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. General readers." -- E. J. Eisenach * Choice *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii
Introduction. Climate, Fascism, Truth 1
1. Sophocles, Mary Shelley, and the Planetary 17
2. The Anthropocene as Abstract Machine 46
3. The Lure of Truth 72
Notes 99
Bibliography 115
Index 121
