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Author:   Joanna Page
Publisher:   UCL Press
Imprint:   UCL Press
Weight:   0.550kg
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9781787359772

ISBN 10:   1787359778
Pages:   286
Publication Date:   15 April 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of figures Acknowledgements Introduction 1. A planetary art beyond the human I. Inhuman agency II. Seismic encounters and the acoustic sublime 2. The atmosphere as a planetary commons I. Breathing a common air II. From the Anthropocene to the Aerocene 3. Art and environmental change: beyond Apocalypse I. Art and geodesign for climate change II. Environmental futures beyond precarity: symbiosis and resilience 4. Science in an ecology of knowledges I. Indigenous cosmologies and cognitive justice II. Transgenic maize: between the milpa and the monoculture 5. Interspecies communication and performance I. Plantbots and the logic of vegetal life II. The language of cetaceans III. Microbe music 6. Revising systems art: biological time and the ethics of care I. Slow robotics and the art of bioremediation II. Curation and care 7. Sensory worlds and the pluriverse I. Spider/webs: from connection to coevolution II. Myrmecology and multispecies communities Conclusion Bibliography Index

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“Joanna Page presents a deeply researched account of contemporary art-science projects in Latin America. She situates them at the crux of current discussions on the decolonization of both the sciences and the arts: by questioning Eurocentric views on humanism and modernity, exploring expanded ideas of perception and cognition, and placing Western scientific knowledge within constellations of beliefs and practices that have been marginalized by colonial histories.” -- Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra, Birkbeck College

Joanna Page presents a deeply researched account of contemporary art-science projects in Latin America. She situates them at the crux of current discussions on the decolonization of both the sciences and the arts: by questioning Eurocentric views on humanism and modernity, exploring expanded ideas of perception and cognition, and placing Western scientific knowledge within constellations of beliefs and practices that have been marginalized by colonial histories. --Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra, Birkbeck College

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Joanna Page is Reader in Latin American Literature and Visual Culture at the University of Cambridge. Her most recent books are Posthumanism and the Graphic Novel in Latin America (co-authored with Edward King) and Geopolitics, Culture, and the Scientific Imaginary in Latin America (co-edited with María del Pilar Blanco).

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