Infowhelm : environmental art and literature in an age of data /

"How do artists and writers engage with environmental knowledge in the face of overwhelming information about catastrophe? What kinds of knowledge do the arts produce when addressing climate change, extinction, and other environmental emergencies? What happens to scientific data when it becomes...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Houser, Heather (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2020]
Series:Literature Now.
Subjects:
Environmentalism in art.
Environmentalism in literature.
Arts, Modern > Themes, motives.
Global environmental change.
Information behavior.
Science and the arts.
Environnementalisme dans l'art.
Environnementalisme dans la littérature.
Changement global (Environnement)
Comportement dans la recherche de l'information.
Sciences et arts.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
Arts, Modern > Themes, motives
Environmentalism in art
Environmentalism in literature
Global environmental change
Information behavior
Science and the arts
Literary criticism
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Environmental art in the infowhelm
  • 1. Making data experiential
  • 2. Coming-of-mind in climate narratives
  • 3. Classifictions
  • 4. Visualizing loss for a "fragmented survival"
  • 5. Environmental aftermaths from the sky
  • Epilogue : Can thinking make it so?

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