Full Description
This innovative book addresses what 'life' is in scholarship and public culture, explores how it has been valued in the Anthropocene since the birth of critical theory, and designs a new approach to understanding biographical styles of life, or 'biostyles'.
By providing an alternative paradigmatic organisation of approaches to biopolitics, Rodanthi Tzanelli attempts a cross-disciplinary analysis of biopolitical issues arising from contemporary crises including overtourism, travel syndromes and hospitality in a mobile world. The study of communities emerging from this alternative mapping of these 'biostyles', is placed in 'snapshots' of extreme situations in tourism consumption, artwork, anti-museum design and technological reconfiguration. Global examples demonstrate different ways of approaching the Anthropocene, particularly by mobilising travel as an epistemological tool and incorporating popular culture into current debates.
This book is a key resource for students and academics specialising in futures studies, the sociology of culture, tourism and urban theory, and cultural methodologies. Its interdisciplinary approach also makes it an invaluable read for scholars in the fields of media, communications, and cultural and human geography.
Contents
Contents
PART I FOUNDATIONS AND ORIENTATIONS
1 Rethinking biopolitical imaginaries: styles and planetary
flows of life
2 Economies of attention and the design of viable planetary futures
PART II 'DAMAGED' HUMANITY
3 Anthropo-sensing and the anthropo-scenes of damaged
travel(lers)
4 Undoing the diagnostics of power, monstering (human) nature
5 Worldbreaking I and the project of recovery from power
PART III 'DAMAGED' EARTH
6 Introducing the geo-scene
7 Environmental imaginaria in the age of extinction:
theming and mytheming a biostylistic ghost
8 Worldbreaking II to document the future: monsters in
artificial paradise(s)
9 The planetary imperative after 'modernity': drifting and
wayfaring in the Critical Zone
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