Atlas of ‘Critical’ Climate Change
Fordham University Press, forthcoming (2010)
Edited by Tom Cohen and Henry Sussman
If “climate change” is the general name for the mutation of terrestrial and biomorphic systems opened by the 21st century what are the corresponding mutation of critical paradigms and epistemologies as we shift from focusing on social realities to non-anthropic factors, agencies, implications and timelines? This volume assembles a broad array of philosophical critics—intergenerational and cross-disciplinary—to address this horizon from different critical idioms and projects. In the mode of an “Atlas,” each has chosen a specific entry for this networked discussion of the changing premises of critical discourse.
CONTENTS & CONTRIBUTORS:
Introduction—“Critical Reorientation in the ‘Era of Climate Change’”?
1. “Aftershock”
Tom Cohen, English Department, University at Albany
2. “Autopoiesis—Cell, Society, Planet”
Bruno Clarke, English, Texas Tech University
3. “Bailout”
Randy Martin, Art and Public Policy, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
4. “Brains and Archives”
Catherine Malabou, University of Paris (Nanterre); Comparative Literature, University at
Buffalo
5. “Bioethics”
Joanna Zylinska, Goldsmith College, London
6. “Biopolitics”
Eva Ziarek, Julian Park Chair, Comparative Literature, University at Buffalo
7. “Care”
Bernard Stiegler, Director of
the Department of Cultural Development, Centre Georges-Pompidou, Paris
8. “Diaspora”
Alberto Moreiras, Director, European Studies, University of Aberdeen
9. “Extinction”
Claire Colebrook, Sparks Professor, English Department, Penn State University
10. “Gender (and Difference)”
Joan Copjec, English, University at Buffalo
11. “Global Unworld”
K. Ziarek, Comparative Literature, University at Buffalo
12. “Jet-Lag”
Henry Sussman, Julian Park Professor, Comparative Literature, University of Buffalo
13. “Machine-Works”
J. Hillis Miller, Distinguished Professor, University of California, Irvine
14. “Sacrifice”
Rey Chow, Comparative Literature & Modern Media & Culture, Brown University
15. “Scale”
Timothy Clark, University of Durham
16. “Security”
Sam Weber, Avalon Professor of Humanities, Northwestern University
17. “Species Invasion”
Jason Groves, Germanic Languages and Literatures, Yale University
18. “Survival”
Yates McKee, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
19. “Sustainability”
Haun Saussy, Bird White Housum Professor, Comparative Literature, Yale University
20. “Time”
Robert Markley, English, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
21. “War”
Mike Hill, English, University at Albany
22. “Waste”
Tian Song, Sociology, Beijing University
23. “Water”
James Bunn, English, University at Buffalo
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