Animate Planet: Making Visceral Sense of Living in a High-Tech Ecologically Damaged World

by Kath Weston

Book Overview

In Animate Planet Kath Weston shows how new intimacies between humans, animals, and their surroundings are emerging as people attempt to understand how the high-tech ecologically damaged world they have made is remaking them, one synthetic chemical, radioactive isotope, and megastorm at a time. Visceral sensations, she finds, are vital to this process, which yields a new animism in which humans and "the environment" become thoroughly entangled. In...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822362325
• ISBN13: 9780822362326
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"