Beyond the World's End
Arts of Living at the Crossing
1st Edition
Published on 3. August 2020
264 pages
978-1-4780-1225-2 (ISBN)
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T. J. Demos explores a range of artistic, activist, and cultural practices that provide compelling and radical propositions for building a just, decolonial, and environmentally sustainable future.
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T. J. Demos is Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture and Director of the Center for Creative Ecologies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of several books, including The Migrant Image: The Art and Politics of Documentary during Global Crisis, also published by Duke University Press, and Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today.
Content
List of Illustrations vii
Introduction. The World's End, and Beyond 1
1. Feeding the Ghost: John Akomfrah's Vertigo Sea 23
2. Blackout: The Necropolitics of Extraction 43
3. The Visual Politics of Climate Refugees 68
4. Gaming the Environment: On the Media Ecology of Public Studio 96
5. Animal Cosmopolitics: The Art of Gustafsson&Haapoga 116
6. To Save a World: Geoengineering, Conflictual Futurisms, and the Unthinkable 137
7. The Great Transition: The Arts and Radical System Change 163
Acknowledgments 195
Notes 199
Index 249
Introduction. The World's End, and Beyond 1
1. Feeding the Ghost: John Akomfrah's Vertigo Sea 23
2. Blackout: The Necropolitics of Extraction 43
3. The Visual Politics of Climate Refugees 68
4. Gaming the Environment: On the Media Ecology of Public Studio 96
5. Animal Cosmopolitics: The Art of Gustafsson&Haapoga 116
6. To Save a World: Geoengineering, Conflictual Futurisms, and the Unthinkable 137
7. The Great Transition: The Arts and Radical System Change 163
Acknowledgments 195
Notes 199
Index 249
