The contributors to Reactivating Elements examine chemicals as they
mix with soil, air, water, and fire to shape Earth's troubled
ecologies today. They invoke the elements with all their
ambivalences as chemical categories, material substances, social
forms, forces and energies, cosmological entities, and epistemic
objects. Engaging with the nonlinear historical significance of
elemental thought across fields-chemistry, the biosciences,
engineering, physics, science and technology studies, the
environmental humanities, ecocriticism, and cultural studies-the
contributors examine the relationship between chemistry and
ecology, probe the logics that render wind as energy, excavate
affective histories of ubiquitous substances such as plastics and
radioactive elements, and chart the damage wrought by petrochemical
industrialization. Throughout, the volume illuminates how elements
become entangled with power and control, coloniality, racism, and
extractive productivism while exploring alternative paths to
environmental destruction. In so doing, it rethinks the
relationship between the elements and the elemental, human and
more-than-human worlds, today's damaged ecosystems and other
ecologies to come. Contributors. Patrick Bresnihan, Tim Choy,
Joseph Dumit, Cori Hayden, Stefan Helmreich, Joseph Masco, Michelle
Murphy, Natasha Myers, Dimitris Papadopoulos, Maria Puig de la
Bellacasa, Astrid Schrader, Isabelle Stengers
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