Houser Infowhelm

Environmental Art and Literature in an Age of Data
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-231-54720-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten

Heather Houser explores the ways contemporary art manages environmental knowledge in the age of climate crisis and informational overload. She argues that the infowhelm—a state of abundant yet contested scientific information—is an unexpectedly resonant resource for environmental artists seeking to go beyond communicating stories about crises.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Houser, Heather

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Nicht-Graphische Kunstformen
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Environmental Art in the Infowhelm
Part I. Cultural Climate Knowledge
Preface
1. Making Data Experiential
2. Coming-of- Mind in Climate Narratives
Part II. The New Natural History
Preface
3. Classifictions
4. Visualizing Loss for a “Fragmented Survival”
Part III. Aerial Environmentalisms
Preface
5. Environmental Aftermaths from the Sky
6. The Afterlives of Information in Speculative Fiction
Epilogue: Can Thinking Make It So?
Acknowledgments
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Heather Houser is associate professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin, where she also codirects the Planet Texas 2050 project focused on climate resilience. She is the author of Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction: Environment and Affect (Columbia, 2014) and an associate editor at Contemporary Literature.