Emphasizing sustainability, balance, and the natural, green
dominates our thinking about ecology like no other color. What
about the catastrophic, the disruptive, the inaccessible, and the
excessive? What of the ocean's turbulence, the fecundity of
excrement, the solitude of an iceberg, multihued contaminations?
Prismatic Ecology moves beyond the accustomed green readings of
ecotheory and maps a colorful world of ecological possibility. In a
series of linked essays that span place, time, and discipline,
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen brings together writers who illustrate the
vibrant worlds formed by colors. Organized by the structure of a
prism, each chapter explores the coming into existence of
nonanthropocentric ecologies. "Red" engages sites of animal
violence, apocalyptic emergence, and activism; "Maroon" follows the
aurora borealis to the far North and beholds in its shimmering
alternative modes of world composition; "Chartreuse" is a
meditation on postsustainability and possibility within sublime
excess; "Grey" is the color of the undead; "Ultraviolet" is a
potentially lethal force that opens vistas beyond humanly known
nature. Featuring established and emerging scholars from varying
disciplines, this volume presents a collaborative imagining of what
a more-than-green ecology offers. While highlighting critical
approaches not yet common within ecotheory, the contributions
remain diverse and cover a range of topics including materiality,
the inhuman, and the agency of objects. By way of color, Cohen
guides readers through a reflection of an essentially complex and
disordered universe and demonstrates the spectrum as an
unfinishable totality, always in excess of what a human perceives.
Contributors: Stacy Alaimo, U of Texas at Arlington; Levi R.
Bryant, Collin College; Lowell Duckert, West Virginia U; Graham
Harman, American U in Cairo; Bernd Herzogenrath, Goethe U of
Frankfurt; Serenella Iovino, U of Turin, Italy; Eileen A. Joy;
Robert McRuer, George Washington U; Tobias Menely, Miami U; Steve
Mentz, St. John's U, New York City; Timothy Morton, Rice U; Vin
Nardizzi, U of British Columbia; Serpil Oppermann, Hacettepe U,
Ankara; Margaret Ronda, Rutgers U; Will Stockton, Clemson U; Allan
Stoekl, Penn State U; Ben Woodard; Julian Yates, U of Delaware.
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