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We barely talk about them and seldom know their names. Philosophy has always overlooked them; even biology considers them as mere decoration on the tree of life. And yet plants give life to the Earth: they produce the atmosphere that surrounds us, they are the origin of the oxygen that animates us. Plants embody the most direct, elementary connection that life can(...)
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The life of plants: A metaphysics of mixture
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We barely talk about them and seldom know their names. Philosophy has always overlooked them; even biology considers them as mere decoration on the tree of life. And yet plants give life to the Earth: they produce the atmosphere that surrounds us, they are the origin of the oxygen that animates us. Plants embody the most direct, elementary connection that life can establish with the world. In this highly original book, Emanuele Coccia argues that, as the very creator of atmosphere, plants occupy the fundamental position from which we should analyze all elements of life. From this standpoint, we can no longer perceive the world as a simple collection of objects or as a universal space containing all things, but as the site of a veritable metaphysical mixture. Since our atmosphere is rendered possible through plants alone, life only perpetuates itself through the very circle of consumption undertaken by plants. In other words, life exists only insofar as it consumes other life, removing any moral or ethical considerations from the equation. In contrast to trends of thought that discuss nature and the cosmos in general terms, Coccia’s account brings the infinitely small together with the infinitely big, offering a radical redefinition of the place of humanity within the realm of life.
Comme l'humanité se viande
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L’élevage accapare 77% des surfaces agricoles mondiales quand la pêche se déploie dans plus de la moitié des océans. L’un et l’autre sont sans conteste les principaux fossoyeurs de la biodiversité sauvage. Mais ils sont aussi en passe de devenir les tout premiers contributeurs du changement climatique : le secteur de la viande représente déjà près de 15% des émissions(...)
avril 2024
Comme l'humanité se viande
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L’élevage accapare 77% des surfaces agricoles mondiales quand la pêche se déploie dans plus de la moitié des océans. L’un et l’autre sont sans conteste les principaux fossoyeurs de la biodiversité sauvage. Mais ils sont aussi en passe de devenir les tout premiers contributeurs du changement climatique : le secteur de la viande représente déjà près de 15% des émissions mondiales de gaz à effet de serre, et la demande en produits d’élevage pourrait encore croître de 144% d’ici le milieu du siècle. Face à ce désastre, l’heure n’est plus à distinguer ou à opposer les pratiques industrielles et artisanales. En réalité, les deux se combinent sous l’effet d’un appétit insatiable de protéines animales qui dévore la planète. Cette situation critique place chacun face à ses responsabilités. Alors qu’émergent des alternatives attractives à la consommation carnée, citoyens, agriculteurs, collectivités, entreprises et gouvernements ont désormais le pouvoir d’encourager une transition alimentaire respectueuse du vivant et déterminante pour la survie de l’humanité.
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"Interaction of color" is often presented as an overarching theory of color, but it is actually a method of learning how to better see and understand color—many of the color exercises illustrated in "Interaction of color" were devised by Albers’s students: cutting and pasting, looking, pondering, and learning. This workbook companion is a teaching tool designed to enable(...)
Interacting with color: A practical guide to Joself Alber's color experiments
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"Interaction of color" is often presented as an overarching theory of color, but it is actually a method of learning how to better see and understand color—many of the color exercises illustrated in "Interaction of color" were devised by Albers’s students: cutting and pasting, looking, pondering, and learning. This workbook companion is a teaching tool designed to enable readers to engage in the kinds of tactile creativity and exploration that characterized Albers’s own classroom. Focusing on eight of the most important lessons in "Interaction of color", this book invites readers to learn by doing, using only simple materials. Core instructions for each exercise are enhanced by additional tips, references to Albers’s original text and illustrations, and stories about how Albers presented the ideas in class. The book and exercises are sufficiently nuanced to challenge and inspire seasoned artists, designers, and educators while also being readily accessible to younger readers and less-experienced practitioners.
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Deep below the ground in Tucson, Arizona, lies an aquifer forever altered by the detritus of a postwar Superfund site. "Disabled ecologies" tells the story of this contamination and its ripple effects through the largely Mexican American community living above. Drawing on her own complex relationship to this long-ago injured landscape, Sunaura Taylor takes us with her to(...)
Disabled ecologies: Lessons from a wounded desert
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Deep below the ground in Tucson, Arizona, lies an aquifer forever altered by the detritus of a postwar Superfund site. "Disabled ecologies" tells the story of this contamination and its ripple effects through the largely Mexican American community living above. Drawing on her own complex relationship to this long-ago injured landscape, Sunaura Taylor takes us with her to follow the site's disabled ecology—the networks of disability, both human and wild, that are created when ecosystems are corrupted and profoundly altered. What Taylor finds is a story of entanglements that reach far beyond the Sonoran Desert. These stories tell of debilitating and sometimes life-ending injuries, but they also map out alternative modes of connection, solidarity, and resistance—an environmentalism of the injured. An original and deeply personal reflection on what disability means in an era of increasing multispecies disablement, "Disabled ecologies" is a powerful call to reflect on the kinds of care, treatment, and assistance this age of disability requires.
Paysages sensibles
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Le rapport des artistes au paysage est fortement reposé dans le contexte contemporain du dérèglement climatique et de la sixième extinction de masse des espèces. Partant d'un parcours d'oeuvres initié par le Pays Portes de Gascogne (Gers), dans le cadre des « itinéraires artistiques », cet ouvrage interroge la façon dont les artistes s'emparent des questions écologiques(...)
novembre 2023
Paysages sensibles
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Le rapport des artistes au paysage est fortement reposé dans le contexte contemporain du dérèglement climatique et de la sixième extinction de masse des espèces. Partant d'un parcours d'oeuvres initié par le Pays Portes de Gascogne (Gers), dans le cadre des « itinéraires artistiques », cet ouvrage interroge la façon dont les artistes s'emparent des questions écologiques pour donner à voir et à sentir le paysage et son rôle dans nos imaginaires contemporains. Pensé lui-même comme un micro-paysage composé de divers strates, présences et points de vue, le livre met en résonance des propos d'artistes, de scientifiques, d'acteurs locaux et de penseurs afin de rendre sensible un paysage contemporain qui tend à être écrasé par des logiques de rentabilité et qui perd chaque jour ses richesses et ses singularités. Le fait d'être attaché à un paysage n'est pas uniquement le fruit d'une construction intellectuelle, d'un regard humain posé sur une portion de pays.
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Science tells us that a new and dangerous stage in planetary evolution has begun--the Anthropocene, a time of rising temperatures, extreme weather, rising oceans, and mass species extinctions. Humanity faces not just more pollution or warmer weather, but a crisis of the Earth System. If business as usual continues, this century will be marked by rapid deterioration of our(...)
Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil capitalism and the crisis of the earth system
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Science tells us that a new and dangerous stage in planetary evolution has begun--the Anthropocene, a time of rising temperatures, extreme weather, rising oceans, and mass species extinctions. Humanity faces not just more pollution or warmer weather, but a crisis of the Earth System. If business as usual continues, this century will be marked by rapid deterioration of our physical, social, and economic environment. Large parts of Earth will become uninhabitable, and civilization itself will be threatened. Facing the Anthropocene shows what has caused this planetary emergency, and what we must do to meet the challenge.
Finding the mother tree
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in her first book, Simard brings us into her world, the intimate world of the trees, in which she brilliantly illuminates the fascinating and vital truths—that trees are not simply the source of timber or pulp but are a complicated, interdependent circle of life; that forests are social, cooperative creatures connected through underground networks by which trees(...)
Finding the mother tree
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in her first book, Simard brings us into her world, the intimate world of the trees, in which she brilliantly illuminates the fascinating and vital truths—that trees are not simply the source of timber or pulp but are a complicated, interdependent circle of life; that forests are social, cooperative creatures connected through underground networks by which trees communicate their vitality and vulnerabilities with communal lives not that different from our own. Simard describes up close—in revealing and accessible ways—how trees, living side by side for hundreds of years, have evolved; how they perceive one another, learn and adapt their behaviors, recognize neighbors, and remember the past; how they have agency about their future; how they elicit warnings and mount defenses, compete and cooperate with one another with sophistication: characteristics previously ascribed to human intelligence, traits that are the essence of civil societies. It is a testament to how deeply human scientific inquiry exists beyond data and technology: it’s about understanding who we are and our place in the world.
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"This system is killing us" is an insider look at the catastrophic effects that energy infrastructure and mining are having on communities and our planet. Xander Dunlap spent a decade living and working with Indigenous activists and land defenders across the world to uncover evidence of the repression people have faced in the wake of untamed capitalist growth. By(...)
This system is killing us: Land grabbing, the green economy and ecological conflict
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"This system is killing us" is an insider look at the catastrophic effects that energy infrastructure and mining are having on communities and our planet. Xander Dunlap spent a decade living and working with Indigenous activists and land defenders across the world to uncover evidence of the repression people have faced in the wake of untamed capitalist growth. By centring the struggles of people whose lives are being systematically destroyed, Dunlap reveals gaps within the current official debates around climate change. This includes reviewing feuds between socialist modernism and degrowth. While changing public policy could play a constructive role in remediating climate catastrophe, by understanding the successes and failures of those "on the front lines," it becomes clear that ecologically decentralized self-organization could be the only way out of this environmental nightmare.
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From the Sivens forest in France to the Hambach forest in Germany, from the Broadback forest in Canada to the rainforests of Borneo, something has shifted in these wild spaces over the last decade or two. People have begun to inhabit the forests, oppose the loggers and use their bodies as shields, motivated by the determination to resist the lethal ecosystem of commercial(...)
septembre 2023
We are forests: inhabiting territories in struggle
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From the Sivens forest in France to the Hambach forest in Germany, from the Broadback forest in Canada to the rainforests of Borneo, something has shifted in these wild spaces over the last decade or two. People have begun to inhabit the forests, oppose the loggers and use their bodies as shields, motivated by the determination to resist the lethal ecosystem of commercial exploitation. Forests have become a battleground in the struggle between groups with fundamentally divergent aims and objectives. Forests are made up of insurgents. Jean-Baptiste Vidalou went to see some of these forests and meet those who are defending them: he discovered a completely different way of understanding the world, sharply opposed to the mentality of planners who see forests as just one more territory to be managed. Here he recounts this encounter, relays what these forest peoples and struggles convey, not to offer any recipes or ready-made solutions to the crises of our times but to be the forest, like a force that grows, stem by stem, leaf by leaf, slowly becoming ungovernable.
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Cette histoire de la construction des infrastructures de transport en France révèle l'envers du décor et les conséquences environnementales de l'accélération commencée dans les années 1950. Alors que les conflits et controverses autour des projets de construction se multiplient, elle dévoile les manoeuvres de l'industrie cimentière et identifie les nouveaux enjeux sociaux(...)
Accumuler du béton, tracer des routes
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Cette histoire de la construction des infrastructures de transport en France révèle l'envers du décor et les conséquences environnementales de l'accélération commencée dans les années 1950. Alors que les conflits et controverses autour des projets de construction se multiplient, elle dévoile les manoeuvres de l'industrie cimentière et identifie les nouveaux enjeux sociaux et écologiques.