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Book SynopsisChapter 1: Navigating Catastrophe: Mapping Climate Crisis Responses Through Technology, Values, and Creative Practice.- Section : Protest and Progress: Activism & Ecopolitics.- Chapter 2: Teaching sustainable development: On systemic issues and fake excuses – Chapter 3: Greta Thunberg and the body of politics: How young climate change protesters are reminding us of the gift of materiality.- Chapter 4: The medium is the environment – COP26 memes as hypocritical resistance.- Chapter 5: Engendering care for the environment through podcasts.- Section 2 – Ecoaesthetic Practice & Analysis.- Chapter 6: A Close Reading of Climate-related Art: Aesthetics and Creative Engagement with the Structural Causes of the Climate Crisis.- Chapter 7: Networked Photography and the ‘Image That Comes’.- Chapter 8: Losing Our Heads: Finding Bodies in the Digital Anthropocene through Contemporary Painting Practice.- Chapter 9: Invisible Threats and Materialist Visibilities: Degradations by James Schneider and Quiet Zone by Karl Lemieux and David Bryant.- Chapter 10: Noticing landscape, sensing climate: Extending ecocinema through expanded documentary.- Section 3 – Emerging Technological Practices.- Chapter 11: An ecoaesthetic of vegetal surfaces: on Seed, Image Ground as soft montage.- Chapter 12: Speculative Visions: Machine Learning, Photography and the Climate Crisis.- Chapter 13: Wasted Bodies Against Ruined Landscapes: How Mass Effect and The Last of Us Depict The Death of Humanity, But Not Neoliberalism .- Section 4 – New Theoretical Horizons.- Chapter 14: Three digressions (on the way to eco-aesthetic politics).- Chapter 15: The Ecological Catastrophe of Algorithmic Individuation: Technological Mediation and its Social Implication in the Age of the Anthropocene.
