Bringing the word sustainability back from the brink of cliche-to a
substantive, truly sustainable future Is sustainability a
hopelessly vague word, with meager purpose aside from a feel-good
appeal to the consumer? In The Three Sustainabilities, Allan Stoekl
seeks to (re)valorize the word, for a simple reason: it is useful.
Sustainability designates objects in time, their birth or genesis,
their consistency, their survival, their demise. And it raises the
question, as no other word does, of the role of humans in the
survival of a world that is quickly disappearing-and perhaps in the
genesis of another world. Stoekl considers a range of possibilities
for the word, touching upon questions of object ontology,
psychoanalysis, urban critique, technocracy, and religion. He
argues that there are three varieties of sustainability, seen from
philosophical, cultural, and economic perspectives. One involves
the self-sustaining world "without us"; another, the world under
our control, which can run the political spectrum from corporatism
to Marxism to the Green New Deal; and a third that carries a social
and communitarian charge, an energy of the "universe" affirmed
through, among other things, meditation and gifting. Each of these
carves out a different space in the relations between objects,
humans, and their survival and degradation. Each is necessary,
unavoidable, and intimately bound with, and infinitely distant
from, the others. Along the way, Stoekl cites a wide range of
authors, from philosophers to social thinkers, literary theorists
to criminologists, anthropologists to novelists. This beautifully
written, compelling, and nuanced book is a must for anyone
interested in questions of ecology, energy, the environmental
humanities, contemporary theories of the object, postmodern and
posthuman aesthetics, or religion and the sacred in relation to
community.
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