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The Child to Come: Life after the Human Catastrophe
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Generation Anthropocene. Storms of My Grandchildren. Our Children’s Trust. Why do these and other attempts to imagine the planet’s uncertain future return us—again and again—to the image of the child? In The Child to Come, Rebekah Sheldon demonstrates the pervasive conjunction of the imperiled child and the threatened Earth and blisteringly critiques the logic of catastrop
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Paperback, 195 pages
Published
November 1st 2016
by Univ Of Minnesota Press
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Rule of the thumb: when the book is produced by University of Something Press, it is not a volume made to be read, but to serve the career of some academic bureaucrat. The text is barely readable, yet I am sure Sheldon has just increased the monthly pension plan which will be paid by the exorbitant student loans. After all Education is just a marketing term for a get rich scheme that has gotten out of control.
An excellent surprise, and I say surprise because I personally wasn't anticipating getting enthused about Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go or McCarthy's The Road.
I chose this out of the many U of MN Press books that looked amazing at the recent SLSA in Atlanta--in part because I was intrigued in exploring the intersection of astute critique and the experience of living in a household with 2 children right now.
Plus, brilliant moments like the juxtaposition of the LBJ peace child ad and 2001: A Space ...more
I chose this out of the many U of MN Press books that looked amazing at the recent SLSA in Atlanta--in part because I was intrigued in exploring the intersection of astute critique and the experience of living in a household with 2 children right now.
Plus, brilliant moments like the juxtaposition of the LBJ peace child ad and 2001: A Space ...more
While sometimes caught by distraction, these are branches on an otherwise strong tree (of life). That "as performative figurations, the child and the planet sentimentalize stasis in the service of life" is made clear by Sheldon: we cannot build walls to keep out the future.
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