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Pollution Theory

Reading Toxic Entanglement in the Anthropocene

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Pollution Theory

Reading Toxic Entanglement in the Anthropocene

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Description

Using speculative modes like science fiction novels, film and modernist painting, this book investigates the ways that pollution has come to define every aspect of material life in the Anthropocene.

Offering eight concepts for making sense of the human impact on the planet - haze, flotsam, tumult, glare, solution, blight, splice and feral - this book explores the pollution of air, land, water, noise, light and bodily life. Examining texts by writers such as Octavia Butler, Kurt Vonnegut and JG Ballard, artists such as J.M.W Turner and James Turrell, and the television series Black Mirror, it argues that pollution is at the heart of our relationship to a planet that is no longer natural.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: Toxic Entanglements
1. Haze
2. Flotsam
3. Emulsion
4. Tumult
5. Glare
6. Splice
7. Blight
Conclusion: Feral
Notes
References

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published Apr 29 2027
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Pages 256
ISBN 9781350543997
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Series Environmental Cultures
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Emily McAvan

Emily McAvan is Teaching Fellow at Deakin Universi…

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