J. R. McNeill, Corinna R. Unger (eds.): Environmental Histories of the Cold War (2010)
Filed under book | Tags: · climate, cold war, ecology, environment, geopolitics, history, military, nuclear weapons, politics, war, war studies
“This book explores the links between the Cold War and the global environment, ranging from the environmental impacts of nuclear weapons to the political repercussions of environmentalism. Environmental change accelerated sharply during the Cold War years, and so did environmentalism as both a popular movement and a scientific preoccupation. Most Cold War history however entirely overlooks these developments, which were not only simultaneous but also linked together in ways both straightforward and surprising. The contributors to this book present these connected issues as a global phenomenon, with chapters concerning China, the USSR, Europe, North America, Oceania, and elsewhere. The role of experts as agents and advocates of using the environment as a weapon in the Cold War or, contrastingly, of preventing environmental damage resulting from Cold War politics is also given broad attention.”
Publisher Cambridge University Press, 2010
ISBN 0521762448, 9780521762441
362 pages
Reviews: Chaney (H-Net, 2011), Tucker (Michigan War Studies Review, 2012), Kinkela (Cold War History, 2013).
Conference report by Thomas Robertson (GFI Bulletin, 2007)
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Comment (0)Edgar Morin: Method, vol. 1: The Nature of Nature (1977–) [PT, EN, ES]
Filed under book | Tags: · anthropology, being, biology, chaos, complexity, cybernetics, epistemology, event, generativity, human, information theory, knowledge, machine, methodology, nature, organization, physics, politics, recursion, self, sociology, systems theory
“Method: The Nature of Nature is the first of several volumes exposing Edgar Morin’s general systems view on life and society. The present volume maintains that the organization of all life and society necessitates the simultaneous interplay of order and disorder. All systems, physical, biological, social, political and informational, incessantly reshape part and whole through feedback, thereby generating increasingly complex systems. For continued evolution, these simultaneously complementary, concurrent, and antagonistic systems require a priority of love over truth, of subject over object, of Sy-bernetics over cybernetics.”
First published in French as La Méthode, t. 1: La Nature de la nature, 1977.
English edition
Translated and Introduced by J.L. Roland Bélanger
Publisher Peter Lang, 1992
ISBN 0820418781
435 pages
Interview with Morin by his translator Ana Sánchez, 2011
Publisher (EN)
WorldCat (EN)
O método 1. A natureza da natureza (Portuguese, trans. Maria Gabriela de Bragança, 2nd ed., c1987, 12 MB)
Method, 1: The Nature of Nature (English, trans. J.L. Roland Bélanger, 1992, 17 MB)
El método 1. La naturaleza de la naturaleza (Spanish, trans. Ana Sánchez and Dora Sánchez García, 2001, 4 MB)
Fionnghuala Sweeney, Kate Marsh (eds.): Afromodernisms: Paris, Harlem, Haiti and the Avant-garde (2013)
Filed under book | Tags: · aesthetics, africa, afromodernism, art, art history, avant-garde, black people, blackness, body, colonialism, dance, futurism, jazz, modernism, music, politics, racism, sexuality, surrealism
“This collection of ten essays makes a persuasive case for a black Atlantic literary renaissance and its impact on modernist studies. The chapters stretch and challenge current canonical configurations of modernism in two ways: by considering the centrality of black artists, writers and intellectuals as key actors and core presences in the development of a modernist avant-garde; and by interrogating ‘blackness’ as an aesthetic and political category at critical moments during the twentieth century. This is the first book-length publication to explore the term ‘Afromodernisms’ and the first study to address together the cognate fields of modernism and the black Atlantic.”
Publisher Edinburgh University Press, 2013
ISBN 074864640X, 9780748646401
264 pages
Review: Dominic Thomas (French Studies, 2013).
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