{"product_id":"exterranean-extraction-in-the-humanist-anthropocene-paperback","title":"Exterranean: Extraction in the Humanist Anthropocene - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePhillip John Usher\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eExterranean\u003c\/i\u003e concerns the extraction of \u003ci\u003estuff\u003c\/i\u003e from the Earth, a process in which matter goes from being sub- to exterranean. By opening up a rich archive of nonmodern texts and images from across Europe, this work offers a bracing riposte to several critical trends in ecological thought. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy shifting emphasis from emission to extraction, Usher reorients our perspective away from Earthrise-like globes and shows what is gained by opening the planet to depths within. The book thus maps the material and immaterial connections between the Earth from which we extract, the human and nonhuman agents of extraction, and the extracted matter with which we live daily. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEschewing the self-congratulatory claims of posthumanism, Usher instead elaborates a productive tension between the materially-situated \u003ci\u003ehomo\u003c\/i\u003e of nonmodern humanism and the abstract and aggregated \u003ci\u003eanthropos\u003c\/i\u003e of the Anthropocene. In dialogue with Michel Serres, Bruno Latour, and other interdisciplinary work in the environmental humanities, Usher shows what premodern material can offer to contemporary theory. Examining textual and visual culture alike, Usher explores works by Ronsard, Montaigne, and Rabelais, early scientific works by Paracelsus and others, as well as objects, engravings, buildings, and the Salt Mines of Wieliczka. Both historicist and speculative in approach, \u003ci\u003eExterranean\u003c\/i\u003e lays the groundwork for a comparative ecocriticism that reaches across and untranslates theoretical affordances between periods and languages.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"For anyone who might be suffering from Anthropocene fatigue, this is a book to jolt you from your slumbers. What happens to the globe when we shift attention from the outward projection of emissions to extraction ? The Earth we thought we knew, and were already mourning, takes on a stunning new critical light.\"--Claire Colebrook, Pennsylvania State University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Usher's brilliant study is a richly argued, erudite yet lyrical ode to the stuff of which the Earth is made. \u003ci\u003eExterranean\u003c\/i\u003e engages with the record of human earthly entanglements in early modern European humanism, but always with a view to counterbalancing current distancing and idealizing views of a globe that is all surface, and no depth. By channeling the voices and agencies of Earth's nonhuman subterranean elements in all their omnipresent intimacy, Usher thus reconnects us not merely to the history of knowledge and beliefs about the Earth and its contents, but to our own fragile planet.\"--Karen Raber, University of Mississippi\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eExterranean\u003c\/i\u003e concerns the extraction of \u003ci\u003estuff\u003c\/i\u003e from the Earth, a process in which matter goes from being sub- to exterranean. By opening up a rich archive of nonmodern texts and images from across Europe, this work offers a bracing riposte to several critical trends in ecological thought. \u003cbr\u003eBy shifting emphasis from emission to extraction, Usher reorients our perspective away from Earthrise-like globes and shows what is gained by opening the planet to depths within. The book thus maps the material and immaterial connections between the Earth from which we extract, the human and nonhuman agents of extraction, and the extracted matter with which we live daily.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEschewing the self-congratulatory claims of posthumanism, Usher instead elaborates a productive tension between the materially-situated \u003ci\u003ehomo\u003c\/i\u003e of nonmodern humanism and the abstract and aggregated \u003ci\u003eanthropos\u003c\/i\u003e of the Anthropocene. In dialogue with Michel Serres, Bruno Latour, and other interdisciplinary work in the environmental humanities, Usher shows what premodern material can offer to contemporary theory. Examining textual and visual culture alike, Usher explores works by Ronsard, Montaigne, and Rabelais, early scientific works by Paracelsus and others, as well as objects, engravings, buildings, and the Salt Mines of Wieliczka. Both historicist and speculative in approach, \u003ci\u003eExterranean\u003c\/i\u003e lays the groundwork for a comparative ecocriticism that reaches across and untranslates theoretical affordances between periods and languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhillip John Usher\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at New York University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhillip John Usher\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at New York University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.51 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 05, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47571126911197,"sku":"9780823284214","price":80.03,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/R3luSzlnL2RIUnRhSDhTY1p2dSt4QT09.webp?v=1773368109","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/exterranean-extraction-in-the-humanist-anthropocene-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}