Open access monographs

[Sigi Jottkandt <sigij AT openhumanitiespress.org>]

Dear friends,

We are delighted to announce the latest title in the Critical Climate Chaos, Irreversibility series: Stephanie Wakefield's (very timely!) Anthropocene Backloop: Experimentation in Unsafe Operating Space.

"We are entering the Anthropocene’s back loop, a time of release and collapse, confusion and reorientation, in which not only populations and climates are being upended but also physical and metaphysical grounds."

Available at

http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/anthropocene-backloop/

"Announcing the apocalypse is easy. But doing something constructive with planetary catastrophe is rare and precious. Stephanie Wakefield’s repurposing of the ecological 'back loop’ for the badlands of the Anthropocene will not only fire your imagination, it will wind you up and send you out to slash, burn, pump, hammer, rivet and rewire a liveable world into existence.”

Nigel Clark – Chair of Social Sustainability, Lancaster University

“Are we just survivors? Is our fate to endlessly – and aimlessly — govern the climate crisis? In this unexpected and inspiring book, Stephanie Wakefield reclaims the Anthropocene ‘back loop’ as a time for experimentation rather than fear, a time to probe possibilities rather than desperately cling to a ‘safe operating space’ that is safe only for a few. Anthropocene Back Loop returns to a key insight: Being is a question, not a blueprint. What other modes of life can we invent?”

Bruce Braun – Professor, University of Minnesota

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