Interdisciplinary studies that combine the current of materialist thinking with discussions of ecologies and environmentalization.
Placed at the intersection of art, media, and cultural studies as well as economic theory, Liquidity, Flows, Circulation investigates the cultural logic of environmentalization. As flows, circulations, and liquidity resurface in all aspects of recent culture and contemporary art, this volume investigates the hypothesis of a genuine cultural logic of environmentalization through these three concepts.
It thus brings together two areas of research that have been largely separate. On the one hand, this volume takes up discussions about ecologies with and without nature and environmentalization as a contemporary form of power and capital. On the other hand, it takes its cue from Fredric Jameson’s notion that each stage of capitalism is accompanied by a genuine cultural logic. The volume introduces this current of materialist thinking into the ongoing discussions of ecologies and environmentalization. By analyzing contemporary art, architecture, theater, films, and literature, the fifteen contributions by scholars and artists explore different fields where liquid forms, semantics flow, or processes of circulation emerge as a contemporary cultural logic.
Author(s): Mathias Denecke, Holger Kuhn, Milan Stürmer
Series: Critical Stances
Publisher: Diaphanes
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 358
City: Zürich
Liquidity, Flows, Circulation
7 - Introduction: The Cultural Logic of Environmentalization
41 - Devenir Universidad: Art, Indigenous Science and the Biocultural Reconstruction of Amazonian Knowledges
57 - A Realist Aesthetic of the Sublime: Art, Environment and The Cultural Logic of the Anthropocene
79 - The Cultural Logic of Green Capitalism: A New Coalition of Geo- and Chronopolitics
99 - Utopias of Flow and Circulation in the Nineteenth Century: Phalansteries by Charles Fourier and Others
119 - “Where the Sun Does Not Reach, There the Doctor Will Appear”
141 - Critique de la Circulation: Remarks on the Design of Environments
165 - In Turbid Environments
181 - Besides One Flow: Quantum Virtuality, Entangled Becomings, and the De-coherence of Ontology
203 - Plasmaticness and the Boundaries of Human Perception
221 - Flowing, Flooding, Fibbing: From Fluid Subjects to Environmental Becoming
241 - The Im:permeable Sieve: Following Gendered Imaginaries of Containers and Leaks
259 - Lead Fish Story: On the Cultural Logic of Fluidity in Architecture
279 - Circulation and the City Novel
295 - The Sublime and the Logistical: Containment Strategies in the Aesthetics of Circulation
313 - Essential Workers: Gigwork, Logistics, and the Sweated Labor of Circulation
333 - List of Illustrations
335 - List of Color Plates
337 - Contributors
345 - Color Plates
