The Mastery Of Non Mastery In The Age Of Meltdown
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The Mastery of Non-Mastery in the Age of Meltdown
Author | : Michael Taussig |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 022669867X |
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"For a long time, we humans have excelled in mimicking nature with the goal of exploiting it. Now, with the existential threat of global climate change on the horizon, the ever-provocative Michael Taussig asks what it would take to change ourselves so as to save our world. Acknowledging the possibility of collapse and our all-too-human impotence in the face of accelerating disaster, this book is not solely a reflection on our tragic condition but also a theoretical effort to reckon with those human faculties that have fed our ambition for dominance over nature. At stake is an ultimate undoing of our sense of control--a "mastery of non-mastery." Animated by the urgency of a planet approaching meltdown, Taussig captures our moment, and all its attendant mythologies, with luminescent clarity"--
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