An Anthropogenic Table of Elements: Experiments in the Fundamental (Technoscience and Society)

Synopsis

An Anthropogenic Table of Elements provides a contemporary rethinking of Dmitri Mendeleev’s periodic table of elements, bringing together "elemental" stories to reflect on everyday life in the Anthropocene. Concise and engaging, this book provides stories of scale, toxicity, and temporality that extrapolate on ideas surrounding ethics, politics, and materiality that are fundamental to this contemporary moment. Examining elemental objects and forces, including carbon, mould, cheese, ice, and viruses, the contributors question what elemental forms are still waiting to emerge and what political possibilities of justice and environmental reparation they might usher into the world. Bringing together anthropologists, historians, and media studies scholars, this book tests a range of possible ways to tabulate and narrate the elemental as a way to bring into view fresh discussion on material constitutions and, thereby, new ethical stances, responsibilities, and power relations. In doing so, An Anthropogenic Table of Elements demonstrates through elementality that even the smallest and humblest stories are capable of powerful effects and vast journeys across time and space.

Copyright:

2022

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781487563592

Related ISBNs:

9781487563585, 9781487563561, 9781487563578

Publisher:

University of Toronto Press

Date of Addition:

09/02/22

Copyrighted By:

University of Toronto Press

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Science, Outdoors and Nature, Technology, Social Studies, Earth Sciences

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Bookshare Staff

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Timothy Neale

Edited by:

Courtney Addison

Edited by:

Thao Phan