Bleak Joys: Aesthetics of Ecology and Impossibility

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A philosophical and cultural distillation of the bleak joys in today's ambivalent ecologies and patterns of life Bleak Joys develops an understanding of complex entities and processes-from plant roots to forests to ecological damage and its calculation-as aesthetic. It is also a book about "bad" things, such as anguish and devastation, which r

Matthew Fuller is professor of cultural studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. Olga Goriunova is reader in media arts at Royal Holloway, University of London.

"Bleak Joys is a tour de force-a survey of some of the most important ideas and environmental issues of our times."-Eben Kirksey, author of Emergent Ecologies and editor of The Multispecies Salon "With Bleak Joys, Matthew Fuller and Olga Goriunova take us on an extraordinary exploration of aesthetic transformations in the era of the new climate regime. Not only does the book offer a unique perspective on a new framework of thought, but it also questions the perceptual, emotional, and ethico-aesthetic transformations imposed on us by the ecological crisis that constitutes our present."-Didier Debaise, author of Nature as Event: The Lure of the Possible