We Are 'Nature' Defending Itself - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook We Are 'Nature' Defending Itself write by Isabelle ; Jordan Fremeaux (Jay). This book was released on 2021. We Are 'Nature' Defending Itself available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "In 2008, as the storms of the financial crash blew, Isabelle Fremeaux and Jay Jordan deserted the metropolis and their academic jobs, traveling across Europe in search of post-capitalist utopias. They wanted their art activism to no longer be uprooted. They arrived at a place French politicians had declared lost to the republic, otherwise know as the zad (the zone to defend): a messy but extraordinary canvas of commoning, illegally occupying 4,000 acres of wetlands where an international airport was planned. In 2018, the 40-year-long struggle snatched an incredible victory, defeating the airport expansion project through a powerful cocktail that merged creation and resistance. Fremeaux and Jordan blend rich eyewitness accounts with theory, inspired by a diverse array of approaches, from neo-animism to revolutionary biology, insurrectionary writings and radical art history"--
We Are 'Nature' Defending Itself
We Are 'Nature' Defending Itself - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook We Are 'Nature' Defending Itself write by Isabelle Fremeaux. This book was released on 2021. We Are 'Nature' Defending Itself available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Chronicles the story of the ZAD (zone to defend), a resistant land occupation emerging out of a decades-long struggle which stopped a new airport project
We Are 'Nature' Defending Itself
We Are 'Nature' Defending Itself - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook We Are 'Nature' Defending Itself write by Isabelle ; Jordan Fremeaux (Jay). This book was released on 2021. We Are 'Nature' Defending Itself available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "In 2008, as the storms of the financial crash blew, Isabelle Fremeaux and Jay Jordan deserted the metropolis and their academic jobs, traveling across Europe in search of post-capitalist utopias. They wanted their art activism to no longer be uprooted. They arrived at a place French politicians had declared lost to the republic, otherwise know as the zad (the zone to defend): a messy but extraordinary canvas of commoning, illegally occupying 4,000 acres of wetlands where an international airport was planned. In 2018, the 40-year-long struggle snatched an incredible victory, defeating the airport expansion project through a powerful cocktail that merged creation and resistance. Fremeaux and Jordan blend rich eyewitness accounts with theory, inspired by a diverse array of approaches, from neo-animism to revolutionary biology, insurrectionary writings and radical art history"--
Silent Spring
Silent Spring - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Silent Spring write by Rachel Carson. This book was released on 2002. Silent Spring available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The essential, cornerstone book of modern environmentalism is now offered in a handsome 40th anniversary edition which features a new Introduction by activist Terry Tempest Williams and a new Afterword by Carson biographer Linda Lear.
The Veil of Isis
The Veil of Isis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Veil of Isis write by Pierre Hadot. This book was released on 2006. The Veil of Isis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Nearly twenty-five hundred years ago the Greek thinker Heraclitus supposedly uttered the cryptic words "Phusis kruptesthai philei." How the aphorism, usually translated as "Nature loves to hide," has haunted Western culture ever since is the subject of this engaging study by Pierre Hadot. Taking the allegorical figure of the veiled goddess Isis as a guide, and drawing on the work of both the ancients and later thinkers such as Goethe, Rilke, Wittgenstein, and Heidegger, Hadot traces successive interpretations of Heraclitus' words. Over time, Hadot finds, "Nature loves to hide" has meant that all that lives tends to die; that Nature wraps herself in myths; and (for Heidegger) that Being unveils as it veils itself. Meanwhile the pronouncement has been used to explain everything from the opacity of the natural world to our modern angst. From these kaleidoscopic exegeses and usages emerge two contradictory approaches to nature: the Promethean, or experimental-questing, approach, which embraces technology as a means of tearing the veil from Nature and revealing her secrets; and the Orphic, or contemplative-poetic, approach, according to which such a denuding of Nature is a grave trespass. In place of these two attitudes Hadot proposes one suggested by the Romantic vision of Rousseau, Goethe, and Schelling, who saw in the veiled Isis an allegorical expression of the sublime. "Nature is art and art is nature," Hadot writes, inviting us to embrace Isis and all she represents: art makes us intensely aware of how completely we ourselves are not merely surrounded by nature but also part of nature.
