Perishability fatigue : forays into environmental loss and decay / Vincent Bruyère.

By:

Bruyère, Vincent [Author]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780231547949

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

TP248 .P475 2018

Online resources:

Click to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password

Available additional physical forms:

Contents:

Still life with genetically modified tomato -- Store and tell -- The mortal life of HeLa -- Oncoscripts -- Dispatch from the palliative present.

Subject: The Svalbard Global Seed Vault project is an arctic archive designed to preserve the world's agricultural biodiversity. What do it and other novel forms of storage tell us about our relationship to the future in a time of resource depletion and extinction scenarios? In this innovative book, Vincent Bruyere offers an invitation to look at the present we live in through a fresh lens: the difference between storage and burial in the age of sustainability science.Perishability Fatigue considers questions of permanence and the potentiality of retrieval, noting the tensions within our collective sense of time and finitude. Bruyere reflects on the nature and significance of perishability, asking what it means to have one's sense of temporality engendered by seed banks and frozen embryo storage, genetically modified organisms and the "de-extinction" of species, nuclear-waste repositories, oncology, and palliative care. He draws attention to the scripts and scenarios that mediate our relations to loss and decay, preservation and conservation, emphasizing the inequalities implicit in technologies of perishability, which promise continuity in the future to some while refusing it to others. A highly interdisciplinary study, Perishability Fatigue reframes the environmental humanities and humanistic inquiry into sustainability science by developing a new language to commemorate fatigue and transience in a culture of preparedness and survival.

Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.

Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode
Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	TP248.23 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		on1048896472

Browsing G. Allen Fleece Library shelves, Shelving location: ONLINE, Collection: Non-fiction Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)

Previous								Next
Previous	TP248.2 Red biotechnology /editors, Anjani Singh Tomar, Viralkumar B. Mandaliya.	TP248.2 INDUSTRY-ACADEMIA INITIATIVES IN BIOTECHNOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY selected peer-reviewed extended articles based on abstracts presented at the International Conference on Industry-Academia Initiatives in Biotechnology and Chemistry (iCIABC21).	TP248.2 Re-creating nature : science, technology, and human values in the twenty-first century /	TP248.23 Perishability fatigue : forays into environmental loss and decay /	TP248.23 The posthuman condition : ethics, aesthetics and politics of biotechnological challenges /	TP248.3 Metabolic engineering of Basfia succiniciproducens for the production of carbon-three compounds	TP248.65 Extraction techniques for food processing /editor, Y.S. Reddy.	Next

Includes bibliographies and index.

Being fabulous as the climate changes -- Still life with genetically modified tomato -- Store and tell -- The mortal life of HeLa -- Oncoscripts -- Dispatch from the palliative present.

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault project is an arctic archive designed to preserve the world's agricultural biodiversity. What do it and other novel forms of storage tell us about our relationship to the future in a time of resource depletion and extinction scenarios? In this innovative book, Vincent Bruyere offers an invitation to look at the present we live in through a fresh lens: the difference between storage and burial in the age of sustainability science.Perishability Fatigue considers questions of permanence and the potentiality of retrieval, noting the tensions within our collective sense of time and finitude. Bruyere reflects on the nature and significance of perishability, asking what it means to have one's sense of temporality engendered by seed banks and frozen embryo storage, genetically modified organisms and the "de-extinction" of species, nuclear-waste repositories, oncology, and palliative care. He draws attention to the scripts and scenarios that mediate our relations to loss and decay, preservation and conservation, emphasizing the inequalities implicit in technologies of perishability, which promise continuity in the future to some while refusing it to others. A highly interdisciplinary study, Perishability Fatigue reframes the environmental humanities and humanistic inquiry into sustainability science by developing a new language to commemorate fatigue and transience in a culture of preparedness and survival.

https://lib.ciu.edu/copyright-request-form

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.