Reactivating Elements
Chemistry, Ecology, Practice
1st Edition
Published on 6. December 2021
304 pages
978-1-4780-2167-4 (ISBN)
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The contributors to Reactiving Elements explore how studying elements-as the foundations of the physical and social world-provide a way to imagine alternatives to worldwide environmental destruction.
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Dimitris Papadopoulos | Maria Puig de la Bellacasa | Natasha Myers
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Chemistry, Ecology, Practice
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Dimitris Papadopoulos is Professor of Science, Technology and Society at the University of Nottingham.
María Puig de la Bellacasa is Associate Professor at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick.
Natasha Myers is Associate Professor of Anthropology at York University.
María Puig de la Bellacasa is Associate Professor at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick.
Natasha Myers is Associate Professor of Anthropology at York University.
Content
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction. Elements: From Cosmology to Episteme and Back / Dimitris Papadopoulos, Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, and Natasha Myers 1
1. Receiving the Gift: Earthly Events, Chemical Invariants, and Elemental Powers / Isabelle Stengers 18
2. Chemicals, Ecology, and Reparative Justice / Dimitris Papadopoulos 34
3. Elementary Forms of Elementary Forms: Old, New, and Wavy / Stefan Helmreich 70
4. Substance as Method: Bromine, for Example / Joseph Dumit 84
5. Elemental Ghosts, Haunted Carbon Imaginaries, and Living Matter at the Edge of Life / Astrid Schrader 108
6. The Artificial World / Joseph Masco 131
7. Tilting at Windmills / Patrick Bresnihan 151
8. Crowding the Elements / Cori Hayden 176
9. Embracing Breakdown: Soil Ecopoethics and the Ambivalences of Remediation / Maria Puig de la Bellcasa 196
10. Externality, Breathers, Conspiracy: Forms for Atmospheric Reckoning / Tim Choy 231
11. Reimagining Chemicals, With and Against Technoscience / Michelle Murphy 257
Contributors 280
Index 285
Introduction. Elements: From Cosmology to Episteme and Back / Dimitris Papadopoulos, Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, and Natasha Myers 1
1. Receiving the Gift: Earthly Events, Chemical Invariants, and Elemental Powers / Isabelle Stengers 18
2. Chemicals, Ecology, and Reparative Justice / Dimitris Papadopoulos 34
3. Elementary Forms of Elementary Forms: Old, New, and Wavy / Stefan Helmreich 70
4. Substance as Method: Bromine, for Example / Joseph Dumit 84
5. Elemental Ghosts, Haunted Carbon Imaginaries, and Living Matter at the Edge of Life / Astrid Schrader 108
6. The Artificial World / Joseph Masco 131
7. Tilting at Windmills / Patrick Bresnihan 151
8. Crowding the Elements / Cori Hayden 176
9. Embracing Breakdown: Soil Ecopoethics and the Ambivalences of Remediation / Maria Puig de la Bellcasa 196
10. Externality, Breathers, Conspiracy: Forms for Atmospheric Reckoning / Tim Choy 231
11. Reimagining Chemicals, With and Against Technoscience / Michelle Murphy 257
Contributors 280
Index 285
