Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene

Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet… emerged as an outcome of an international and interdisciplinary conversation, which took place during the eponymous conference at the University of California in 2014. The book's contributors unpack controversies associated with the ‘anthropocene’, ‘a geologic[al] epoch in which humans have become the major force determining the continuing livability of the earth’ (p. G1). These controversies are associated with the superimposition of human and non-human living spaces, and the volume's two-part discussion gravitates towards the problem of masking the destructive effects of human civilization. The project's interdisciplinarity is its key feature—the book's chapters present…