Walter Benjamin warned in 1940 of a certain inconspicuous threat to political thinking, not least of all to materialism, that takes progress as an historical norm. Implicit in this conception is what he describes as an empty continuum of time along which the prevailing tradition chronicles its own mythic development and drains everyday life of genuine historical experience. The myth of progressive history advances insidiously today in consumeristic and technocratic attempts at reconciling cultural imagery with organic nature. In this dissertation, I pursue the contradictions of such images as they crystallize around the natural history of twenty-first century commodity society, where promises of ecological remediation, sustainable urban dev...
The transition from the information society to the communication society, placed by scholars in the ...
Abstract: In the wake of ecological crises, there has been a resurgence of interest in the relation ...
In States of Nature, I trace an alternative prehistory to environmental thought in eighteenth- and n...
The accumulating evidence on the depth and accelerating trajectory of anthropogenic climate change p...
Esther Leslie argues that catastrophe and crisis have been an integral part of human history during ...
This project explores the relation between American exceptionalism and global ecological crisis of o...
Radical ecology claims to be a new movement at the cutting edge of social change offering a solution...
Today, the Nature-History relations are the ecological ones: we are living in a global eco-bio-techn...
Mythology and available archeological evidence reveal that in primitive times, humankind lived in ha...
This dissertation develops an urban political ecology of postindustrial landscapes for the Anthropoc...
The purposes of this thesis were to (A) determine a new historiographical direction for environmenta...
International audienceHow do the meaning and practices of environmentalism change if we see the curr...
A compelling and long-overdue exploration of the Progressive-era conservation movement, and its last...
Throughout his writings, Walter Benjamin expressly rejected the dominant, historicist notion of hist...
Elaborating from anthropology of nature and semiotic of culture, the work aims to illustrate that ev...
The transition from the information society to the communication society, placed by scholars in the ...
Abstract: In the wake of ecological crises, there has been a resurgence of interest in the relation ...
In States of Nature, I trace an alternative prehistory to environmental thought in eighteenth- and n...
The accumulating evidence on the depth and accelerating trajectory of anthropogenic climate change p...
Esther Leslie argues that catastrophe and crisis have been an integral part of human history during ...
This project explores the relation between American exceptionalism and global ecological crisis of o...
Radical ecology claims to be a new movement at the cutting edge of social change offering a solution...
Today, the Nature-History relations are the ecological ones: we are living in a global eco-bio-techn...
Mythology and available archeological evidence reveal that in primitive times, humankind lived in ha...
This dissertation develops an urban political ecology of postindustrial landscapes for the Anthropoc...
The purposes of this thesis were to (A) determine a new historiographical direction for environmenta...
International audienceHow do the meaning and practices of environmentalism change if we see the curr...
A compelling and long-overdue exploration of the Progressive-era conservation movement, and its last...
Throughout his writings, Walter Benjamin expressly rejected the dominant, historicist notion of hist...
Elaborating from anthropology of nature and semiotic of culture, the work aims to illustrate that ev...
The transition from the information society to the communication society, placed by scholars in the ...
Abstract: In the wake of ecological crises, there has been a resurgence of interest in the relation ...
In States of Nature, I trace an alternative prehistory to environmental thought in eighteenth- and n...