Ecologics

“Witty, surprising, and exuding the talent of storytelling, this book about wind and power makes the reader feel the force and complexity of both. It also details a lesson for these permanently changing times: there is no good Anthropocene. The alternative materiality of energy (wind instead of fossil fuel, for example) will not reverse climate change, for nothing is renewable in itself. Instead, wind as renewable energy is a political possibility as people become with wind and occupy place as well as the relation that corporate might uses to make wind a commodity.” — Marisol de la Cadena, author of Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice across Andean Worlds

“All of the apocalyptic rhetoric about the ‘end of the world’ dangerously obscures the fact that ecological politics will and must continue. In this rich study Cymene Howe shows exactly why anthropology is central to the study of the Anthropocene—what else are we embarking on, in this age of global warming, other than a fraught and uneven reimagining of the very notion of the human? Is it finally possible for humans and their fellow coexistent life-forms to envision a ‘we’ at all the different scales an ecological politics requires?” — Timothy Morton, author of Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People