Polygraph 22: Ecology and Ideology

by Gerry Canavan

Contents:
Introduction -- Gerry Canavan, Lisa Klarr, and Ryan Vu
The Cultural Politics of Oil: On Lessons of Darkness and Black Sea Files -- Imre Szeman
Ecology after Capitalism -- Timothy Morton
When Nature Calls; Or, Why Ecological Criticism Needs Althusserian Ideology -- Andrew Hageman
Inverted Astronomy: Ungrounded Ethics, Volcanic Copernicanism, and the Ecological Decentering of the Human -- Ben Woodard
Philosophy and Ecosystem: Towards a Transcendental Ecology -- Anthony Paul Smith
The Ecology of Consumption: A Critique of Economic Malthusianism -- John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark
The Animal and the Political: Biopolitics, Sovereign Power, and the Hydrologic of Immanent Space -- Robert Geroux
Black Nature: The Question of Race in the Age of Ecology -- Britt M. Rusert
The Anti-Nuclear Movement in Germany -- Joachim Radkau
Translated by Lucas Perkins
Embodied Materialism in Action: An Interview with Ariel Salleh -- Gerry Canavan, Lisa Klarr, and Ryan Vu
Science, Justice, Science Fiction: A Conversation with Kim Stanley Robinson -- Gerry Canavan, Lisa Klarr, and Ryan Vu
On Ecology: A Roundtable Discussion with Timothy Morton and Kathy Rudy -- Timothy Morton, Kathy Rudy, and the Polygraph Collective
Living in the End Times -- Slavoj Zizek
Two Faces of Apocalypse: A Letter from Copenhagen -- Michael Hardt

312 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

Gerry Canavan is an associate professor in the English Department at Marquette University, specializing in 20th- and 21st-century literature. An editor at Extrapolation and Science Fiction Film and Television, he has also coedited Green Planets: Ecology and Science Fiction (2014), The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction (2015), and The Cambridge History of Science Fiction (2019). His first monograph, Octavia E. Butler, appeared in 2016 in the Modern Masters of Science Fiction series at University of Illinois Press.