Exterranean : : Extraction in the Humanist Anthropocene / / Phillip John Usher.

Exterranean concerns the extraction of stuff from the Earth, a process in which matter goes from being sub- to exterranean. By opening up a rich archive of nonmodern texts and images from across Europe, this work offers a bracing riposte to several critical trends in ecological thought. By shifting...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Meaning Systems
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.) :; 34
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Incipit: From sub- to exterranean
  • Part I. Terra global circus
  • Chapter 1. Terra has standing
  • Chapter 2. Terre's brilliant mines
  • Chapter 3. Terra globalized
  • Part II. Welcome to mineland
  • Chapter 4. Sickly mountainsides
  • Chapter 5. Demonic mines
  • Part III. Hiding in exterranean matter
  • Chapter 6. Geomedia
  • Chapter 7. Saline intimacies
  • Explicit
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index