Description A by-now classic and deeply influential critique of the foundational assumptions of ecocriticism (and strands of Romantic literature), Morton’s book issues a challenge to the idea of Nature as a transcendental term—and to the […]
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Botany: The Salutary Science
Description Cook’s magisterial study explores Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s abiding interest in botany and botanical science and the significance of his botanical writings in the context of the history of plant science. She gives a wide-ranging yet […]
Ariel’s Ecology: Plantations, Personhood, and Colonialism in the American Tropics
Description Allewaert uncovers the enmeshment of persons in places– and the imbrication of the nonhuman and the human– in eighteenth-century American plantations (and the literature, culture, and thought circulating around and through them). Her book […]
Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital
Description Written from a Marxist perspective, this book examines the emergence of capitalist modernity in terms of the extraction of natural resources. It analyzes the ways in which the Enlightenment ideology of history as progress […]
“The Climate of History: Four Theses”
Description This article argues that the thesis of the Anthropocene offers grounds for a reconciliation between human history and natural history, abolishing the Enlightenment ideology of history as the progressive conquest of nature by Man. […]
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
Tsing traces the rhythms of disturbance-based ecologies through the biological and economic lives of matsutake mushrooms. Attending to the fortuitous multispecies assemblages of lifeforms and lifeways that arise within the ruins of capitalist expansion, Tsing […]