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Contestatory and Creative Poetics for a Time of Climate Catastrophe: Per Se

Contestatory and Creative Poetics for a Time of Climate Catastrophe: Per Se

Kinsella, John
West-Pavlov, Russell

Hardcover

Environmental StudiesGeneral Political ScienceZoology

ISBN10: 1839992735
ISBN13: 9781839992735
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: Oct 14 2025
Pages: 334
Weight: 1.36
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Contestatory and Creative Poetics for a Time of Climate Catastrophe: Volume 1: Per Se is an extended narrative meditation upon the meaning of per se, which generally denotes the thing-in-itself, for its own sake - but that, upon closer examination, transpires to be a high tensile composite of the 'thing' (se) and a relationship (per) that always links it to something else - and indeed, in relations of internal complexity, to itself. Per se, in the book's multiple parsings of the term, is a moniker for the infinite relationality of the world and the relationality of each thing in itself. Per se also denotes the endless fractal embedding of bundles of relationality at the successive levels of thing-ness from the infinitesimally minute nano-scale to the unimaginably distant outer reaches of the sideral. Per se becomes an exploration of the way commodities, cut loose from their context of production and floating on sea of oscillating (exchange) values, never cease to morph back into artefacts defined by the socially intensive use-values their fellow actants discover in them.

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