Description
These Survivals Is An Experimental Manuscript That Plays With Form And Genre To Think And Feel Ethics In The Age Of The Anthropocene. A Full Color, Collage-style Work In Fragments, The Book Brings Together Philosophy, Poetry, And Original Artworks To Articulate An Ethics Of Living On A Devastated Planet. With A Focus On Climate Change And Mass Species Extinction, Lynne Huffer Approaches Ruination Through Assemblages Rendered In Sharp-edged Prose, Vibrant Color Images, And Moveable Book Elements. Its Abiding Theme Is A Repeated Phrase: The Fragment Remains While The Whole Crumbles. From Fossils To Sappho's Fragments To New York Times Cutouts Pasted Onto A Substrate, The Fragment's Incompletion Invites The Reader Into Practices Of Transformation In The Midst Of Uncertainty And The Spectre Of Worlds Ending. Elements Of The Author's Life Are Integral To The Weave Of The Book As The Book's Narrator Struggles With Everyday Life While Confronting The Immensity Of Extinction Across The Expanse Of Geological Time. These Survivals Opens A Space For Thought To Emerge In Unexpected And Innovative Ways-ways That Are Always Grounded In The Material Practices Of Writing And Living-- Provided By Publisher.
