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Book SynopsisCombining poetic observation with philosophical contemplation and scientific evidence, Adrian Parr offers a moving vision of a world in upheaval and a potent manifesto for survival.
Earthlings is both a joyful celebration of the magnificence of the biosphere and an urgent call for action to save it.
Trade ReviewA powerful new lens through which to examine our glorious and battered planet. -- Bill McKibben, author of
The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell HappenedIn a narrative style that combines analytical rigour with lyrical empathy and proximity to her subject-matter, Adrian Parr designs a stunning pattern of interaction across entities, elements, ethnicities, generations and species without amalgamating them or flattening their differences. Poetic and speculative, engaged and concerned, but also polemical and investigative, this book is an ode to the affirmative force of relations and processes of becoming, and to the transformative force of the imagination. She emphasizes the joyful aspects of the interdependence of all living things and shows how they are steered by a constant energy exchange with one another. Parr's eco-ontology takes the shape of a trans-environmentalist journey, that challenges anthropocentrism, while appealing to what is best in humans, namely our shared concern for the future of our—and several trillion other—planetary species. -- Rosi Braidotti, Distinguished University Professor, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
This highly original contribution on the impending climate catastrophe in the age of the Anthropocene is nothing short of a new bio-ecological philosophy for life. It confronts head-on the need for a new ethics for cohabitation with other life forms on this planet. In doing so, it asks profound questions on the basis of what it means to be human in the twenty-first century. -- Brad Evans, author of
Ecce Humanitas: Beholding the Pain of HumanityInsisting that environmental degradation is a crime against the planet and against our own humanity, Parr concludes that late global capitalism has ravaged the earth and that as earthlings we must creatively and collectively produce—give birth—to a new earth: she thus urges new ways of dwelling on earth outside of capitalist expansion, exploitation, despoiling, and death. -- Jana Evans Braziel, author of
"Riding with Death": Vodou Art and Urban Ecology in the Streets of Port-au-PrinceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments
Commencement
1. Land
2. Parasite
3. Migrations
4. Air
5. Ocean
6. Ice
7. Animalia
8. Eco-ontology
9. Re-commencement
Notes
Bibliography
Index
