{"product_id":"critical-zones-isbn-9780262044455","title":"Critical Zones","description":"\u003cb\u003eArtists and writers portray the disorientation of a world facing climate change.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis monumental volume, drawn from a 2020 exhibition at the ZKM Center for Art and Media, portrays the disorientation of life in world facing climate change. It traces this disorientation to the disconnection between two different definitions of the land on which modernizing humans live: the sovereign nation from which they derive their rights, and another one, hidden, from which they gain their wealth—the land they live \u003ci\u003eon\u003c\/i\u003e, and the land they live \u003ci\u003efrom\u003c\/i\u003e. Charting the land they will inhabit, they find not a globe, not the iconic “blue marble,” but a series of critical zones—patchy, heterogenous, discontinuous. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith short pieces, longer essays, and more than 500 illustrations, the contributors explore the new landscape on which it may be possible for humans to land—what it means to be “on Earth,” whether the critical zone, the Gaia, or the terrestrial. They consider geopolitical conflicts and tools redesigned for the new “geopolitics of life forms.” The “thought exhibition” described in this book can opens a fictional space to explore the new climate regime; the rest of the story is unknown.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributors include\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDipesh Chakrabarty, Pierre Charbonnier, Emanuele Coccia, Vinciane Despret, Jerôme Gaillarde, Donna Haraway, Joseph Leo Koerner, Timothy Lenton, Richard Powers, Simon Schaffer, Isabelle Stengers, Bronislaw Szerszynski, Jan A. Zalasiewicz, Siegfried Zielinski\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCopublished with ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe\u003c\/p\u003ePart I:   DISORIENTATION\u003cbr\u003e Part II: DISCONNECTION \u003cbr\u003e Part III: LANDING \u003cbr\u003e PART IV: DIVISION \u003cbr\u003e PART V: DESCRIPTION \u003cbr\u003e PART VI: SUSPENDED OVERTHE CLIFFA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Best Art Book of 2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eCritical Zones:The Science and Politics of Landing on Earth\u003c\/i\u003e is therefore a remarkable oeuvre that guides us to landing, while fomenting critical and active thinking about the current crisis.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Constança Babo, PhD candidate in New Media Art at Universidade Nova de Lusófona, with CIC.Digital \/ ICNOVA, research fellow at ZKM | Hertz-Lab for the project Beyond Matter; Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts, vol. 14\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eBruno Latour, a philosopher and anthropologist, is the author of \u003ci\u003eWe Have Never Been Modern\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAn Inquiry into Modes of Existence\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFacing Gaia\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDown to Earth\u003c\/i\u003e, and many other books. He coedited (with Peter Weibel) the previous ZKM volumes \u003ci\u003eMaking Things Public\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eICONOCLASH\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eReset Modernity!\u003c\/i\u003e (all published by the MIT Press).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeter Weibel is Chairman and CEO of the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. With Bruno Latour, he coedited \u003ci\u003eICONOCLASH\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMaking Things Public\u003c\/i\u003e as well as other ZKM volumes, including, most recently, \u003ci\u003eSound Art\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGlobal Activism\u003c\/i\u003e (all published by the MIT Press).","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300202926309,"sku":"NP9780262044455","price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262044455.jpg?v=1767724272","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/critical-zones-isbn-9780262044455","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}