Bruyere Perishability Fatigue

Forays Into Environmental Loss and Decay
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-231-54794-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 100 Seiten

Reihe: Critical Life Studies

Vincent Bruyere offers an invitation to look at the present we live in through a fresh lens: the difference between storage and burial in the age of sustainability science. He reflects on the nature and significance of perishability in a culture of preparedness and survival.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bruyere, Vincent

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Futurologie (Interdisziplinär)
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Sozialprognosen
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Dekonstruktivismus, Strukturalismus, Poststrukturalismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface: Myrrha’s Prayer
Acknowledgments
1. Being Fabulous as the Climate Changes
2. Still Life with Genetically Modified Tomato
3. Store and Tell
4. The Mortal Life of HeLa
5. Oncoscripts
6. Dispatch from the Palliative Present
Epilogue
Notes
Work Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Bruyere Vincent:
Vincent Bruyere (PhD, French Studies, Warwick) is Assistant Professor of French Studies, cross-listed with the Studies in Sexualities Program and the Disability Studies Initiative, and Co-Director of Graduate Studies, French and Comparative Literature at Emory University. He is the author of La différence Francophone: De Jean Léry à Patrick Chamoiseau (Rennes, 2012) and has also published essays in Mosaic, Symplokè, Diacritics, and Esprit Créateur.Vincent Bruyere is assistant professor of French at Emory University and affiliate faculty in the Center for the Study of Human Health. He is the author of La différence francophone: De Jean Léry à Patrick Chamoiseau (2012).