Bleak Joys: Aesthetics of Ecology and Impossibility Volume 53

by Matthew Fuller and Olga Goriunova

Book Overview

A philosophical and cultural distillation of the bleak joys in today's ambivalent ecologies and patterns of life

Bleak Joys develops an understanding of complex entities and processes--from plant roots to forests to ecological damage and its calculation--as aesthetic. It is also a book about "bad" things, such as anguish and devastation, which relate to the ecological and technical but are also constitutive of politics,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517905532
• ISBN13: 9781517905538
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.5"