1st Edition
Toxic Media Ecologies Critical Responses to the Cultural Politics of Planetary Crises
Introduction: Toxic Media Ecologies
Sourayan Mookerjea
PART I – The Ghosts of Cultural Studies
1. Toxic Money: Economic Globalization and its Currencies, Edible and Not
Karin Harrasser
2. Surveillance, Sousveillance, & the Crisis of Invisibility: Performing Bodies as ‘Dark Matters’
Donia Mounsef
3. Iturbide's Iguanas: Visual Sovereignty and Narrative Reclamation in the Latin American Indigenous Image
Stephen Cruikshank
4. Being Better after the End: Dramatizing Care-ful Feminist Successor Science in Élisabeth Vonarburg’s The Silent City
Ariel Kroon
5. The Generativity of the Clinamen: A Response to the Pandemic through Serres’ The Birth of Physics
Nicholas Hardy
6. Toxic Intermedia Environments: Fascism Redux and the AI Frontier
Sourayan Mookerjea
PART II – Research-Creation as “Poly-Disciplinamorous”
7. Research-Creation Pedagogies: How to Make Art… Revisited
Natalie Loveless
8. Ecologix: Ecosophic Styling in Toxic Times
Jessie Beier
9. A Provocation from the Open Secret Research SPORE
Rob Jackson
PART III – Case Studies in Research-Creation
10. Design Beyond Anthropos (Talking to Rocks)
Daniel Walker
11. End-Times, Neoliberalism & Love: Layers Fitted to the Earth
Leila Plouffe
12. Pilgrimage: Being in the End Times
Kyle Terrence
13. Perfect Storm! Molecular Media and the Politics of Regeneration
Sourayan Mookerjea
14. Incorporating a Critical Approach to Power Dynamics through Representation in Serious Games on Climate Change
Evalyna Bogdan
15. Energic Pedagogy: Curating Deep Energy Literacy through the Politics of Play
Jordan Kinder
CONCLUSION
Reading Obliquely in Beirut, or Crisis-ness as Necropolitics
Biography
Sourayan Mookerjea is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Alberta, Canada.
Donia Mounsef is a Professor of Drama at the University of Alberta, Canada.
“Going through the most turbulent time in global history – since the 1940s – with wars, genocide and erratic leadership across the world, we need careful unpacking of our current state of affairs that might almost be characterised as ‘Fascism redux’. Through a robust and well-referenced polemic, this edited volume strives to make sense of it all.”
- Pat Brereton, Emeritus Professor of Communications at Dublin City University, Ireland
