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An Anthropogenic Table of Elements

Experiments in the Fundamental
Buch | Softcover
246 Seiten
2022
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-6357-8 (ISBN)
32,40 inkl. MwSt
With stories of life in the Anthropocene, this book places Dmitri Mendeleev’s periodic table of elements and his groundbreaking theory of elementality into modern context.
An Anthropogenic Table of Elements provides a contemporary rethinking of Dmitri Mendeleev’s periodic table of elements, bringing together "elemental" stories to reflect on everyday life in the Anthropocene.

Concise and engaging, this book provides stories of scale, toxicity, and temporality that extrapolate on ideas surrounding ethics, politics, and materiality that are fundamental to this contemporary moment. Examining elemental objects and forces, including carbon, mould, cheese, ice, and viruses, the contributors question what elemental forms are still waiting to emerge and what political possibilities of justice and environmental reparation they might usher into the world.

Bringing together anthropologists, historians, and media studies scholars, this book tests a range of possible ways to tabulate and narrate the elemental as a way to bring into view fresh discussion on material constitutions and, thereby, new ethical stances, responsibilities, and power relations. In doing so, An Anthropogenic Table of Elements demonstrates through elementality that even the smallest and humblest stories are capable of powerful effects and vast journeys across time and space.

Timothy Neale is a DECRA senior research fellow and senior lecturer in Anthropology at Deakin University. Courtney Addison is a lecturer in the Centre for Science in Society at Te Herenga Waka, Victoria University of Wellington. Thao Phan is a postdoctoral research fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence on Automated-Decision Making & Society and the Emerging Technologies Research Lab at Monash University.

Introduction
Timothy Neale, Courtney Addison, and Thao Phan

1. 1080
Courtney Addison

2. Carbon
Timothy Neale

3. Cement
Eli Elinoff

4. Cheese
Xenia Cherkaev, Heather Paxson, and Stefan Helmreich

5. Copper
Manuel Tironi

6. Ice
Alexis Rider

7. Kerosphere
Émélie Desrochers-Turgeon, Ozayr Saloojee, and Zoe Todd

8. Lithium
Scott Wark

9. Mould
Alison Kenner and Sarah Stalcup

10. Mylar
Derek P. McCormack

11. Seeds
Xan Chacko

12. Sperm
Janelle Lamoreaux and Ayo Wahlberg

13. Strontium
Brad Bolman

14. Tectonics
Zeynep Oguz

15. Testosterone
J.R. Latham and Kate Seear

16. Virus
Frederic Keck

17. Elements-to-Come
Thao Phan

Contributors
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Technoscience and Society
Zusatzinfo 10 b&w illustrations, 1 b&w map, 3 b&w figures
Verlagsort Toronto
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 340 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Biologie Evolution
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
ISBN-10 1-4875-6357-4 / 1487563574
ISBN-13 978-1-4875-6357-8 / 9781487563578
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