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An Anthropogenic Table of Elements provides a contemporary
rethinking of Dmitri Mendeleev's periodic table of elements,
bringing together "elemental" stories to reflect on everyday life
in the Anthropocene. Concise and engaging, this book provides
stories of scale, toxicity, and temporality that extrapolate on
ideas surrounding ethics, politics, and materiality that are
fundamental to this contemporary moment. Examining elemental
objects and forces, including carbon, mould, cheese, ice, and
viruses, the contributors question what elemental forms are still
waiting to emerge and what political possibilities of justice and
environmental reparation they might usher into the world. Bringing
together anthropologists, historians, and media studies scholars,
this book tests a range of possible ways to tabulate and narrate
the elemental as a way to bring into view fresh discussion on
material constitutions and, thereby, new ethical stances,
responsibilities, and power relations. In doing so, An
Anthropogenic Table of Elements demonstrates through elementality
that even the smallest and humblest stories are capable of powerful
effects and vast journeys across time and space.
An Anthropogenic Table of Elements provides a contemporary
rethinking of Dmitri Mendeleev's periodic table of elements,
bringing together "elemental" stories to reflect on everyday life
in the Anthropocene. Concise and engaging, this book provides
stories of scale, toxicity, and temporality that extrapolate on
ideas surrounding ethics, politics, and materiality that are
fundamental to this contemporary moment. Examining elemental
objects and forces, including carbon, mould, cheese, ice, and
viruses, the contributors question what elemental forms are still
waiting to emerge and what political possibilities of justice and
environmental reparation they might usher into the world. Bringing
together anthropologists, historians, and media studies scholars,
this book tests a range of possible ways to tabulate and narrate
the elemental as a way to bring into view fresh discussion on
material constitutions and, thereby, new ethical stances,
responsibilities, and power relations. In doing so, An
Anthropogenic Table of Elements demonstrates through elementality
that even the smallest and humblest stories are capable of powerful
effects and vast journeys across time and space.
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