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Malfeasance: Appropriation Through Pollution?

Malfeasance: Appropriation Through Pollution?

Serres, Michel
Feenberg-Dibon, Anne-Marie

Paperback

PhilosophyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0804773033
ISBN13: 9780804773034
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Nov 11 2010
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.31 Width: 4.56 Depth: 7.03
Language: English

In this highly original and provocative book, Michel Serres reflects on the relation between nature and culture and analyzes the origins of the world's contemporary environmental problems. He does so through the surprising proposition that our cleanliness is our dirt. While all living beings pollute to lay claim to their habitat, humans have multiplied pollution's effects catastrophically since the Industrial Revolution through the economic system's mode of appropriation and its emphasis on mindless growth. He warns that while we can measure what he calls hard pollution--the poisoning of the Earth--we ignore at our peril the disastrous impact of the soft pollution created by sound and images on our psyches. Sounding the alarm that the planet is heading for disaster, Serres proposes that humanity should stop trying to own the world and become renters. Building on his earlier work, especially that on hominization, he urges us to establish a natural contract with nature.

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