A visually stunning narrative of three eras in humankind’s vexed
relationship with nature Ascension is a novel about the end of
nature, or rather, the end of three “natures”: the time just
before Darwin changed the natural world; the 1980s, just as the
digital and genetic revolutions begin to replace “nature” with
“environment”; and today, a time when we have the ability to
manipulate nature at both the scale of the planet and at the
genome. The narrative follows three different biologists on the
brink of each of these cultural extinctions to explore how nature
occupies our imaginations and how our imaginations bring the
natural world, and our place in it, into existence. Ascension is a
story of how we continually remake the world and are in turn remade
by the new nature we’ve created. It is the story of humans
yearning to understand their families, themselves, and the world
they live in as it comes to a close, leaving them to anticipate
what will follow. Rich in visual depictions of the natural
world—from nineteenth century engraving and paintings to
twentieth century photography and twenty-first century
databases—Ascension uses the materials of three eras to drive
home our inability to escape nature, and the ways our fates are
irrevocably bound together even as our actions usher in an
end-time.
General
Imprint: |
Fiction Collective Two
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
July 2022 |
Authors: |
Steve Tomasula
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
398 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-57366-195-9 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General
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LSN: |
1-57366-195-3 |
Barcode: |
9781573661959 |
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