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• The Great Derangement

  Climate Change and the Unthinkable

  Ghosh, Amitav, 1956-

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  The great Indian novelist offers his take on climate change, wondering why the reaction from the world of literature has been so inadequate. Touching on history as well as literary criticism, Ghosh offers a thought-provoking contemplation of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Learning to Die in the Anthropocene

  Reflections on the End of a Civilization

  Scranton, Roy, 1976-

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  Expanded from a New York Times essay, Scranton's short book argues that the chance to save anything has already passed, and that we need now to focus on how to create new systems of meaning for a radically changed world.

• We're Doomed. Now What?

  Essays on War and Climate Change

  Scranton, Roy, 1976-

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  Continuing his despairing (or realistic, depending on your view) approach, Scranton here sometimes seems to be trying too hard to be innovative in his writing, but he can still make some snappy sentences.

• The Ecological Thought

  Morton, Timothy, 1968-

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  Probably among the finest current exemplars of that hodgepodge of continental philosophy, literary theory, and cultural studies that masquerades under the moniker 'ecocriticism,' Morton stretches language to its very limits in (over)thinking the way…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hyperobjects

  Philosophy and Ecology After the End of the World

  Morton, Timothy, 1968-

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• Dark Ecology

  for a Logic of Future Coexistence

  Morton, Timothy, 1968-

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  Here's a description of dark ecology from page 15 of Morton's later book, Being Ecological, just to give you a sense of what you're faced with here: "“My approach to ecological thought can be characterized as something I call ‘dark ecology.’ Dark…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Humankind

  Solidarity With Nonhuman People

  Morton, Timothy, 1968-

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  Subtitle: Solidarity with Nonhuman People. See what he did there?

• Being Ecological

  Morton, Timothy, 1968-

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  One of Morton's most ambitious attempts to distill ecology down to pure thought. If you're willing to do some digging, you can actually find some portions that can be understood by human beings.

• Walking on Lava (Book) | Boston Public Library

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  A compilation of materials from the first ten of the twelve(!) volumes published thus far by the Dark Mountain Project, a kind of amorphous artsy-environmentalist cultural entity that seeks to create new narratives for making meaning in the new…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Selected Poems

  Jeffers, Robinson, 1887-1962

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  This collection includes the poem 'Rearmament,' from which the Dark Mountain Project derived its name. Jeffers was ahead of his time, or maybe, if I dare plagiarize Jonson's assessment of another, better-known writer, I might say that he was not of…Read moreRead more of this annotation