Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet

Contents
Ghosts on a Damaged Planet
Introduction: Haunted Landscapes of the Anthropocene
Elaine Gan, Nils Bubandt, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, and Heather Anne Swanson
1. A Garden or a Grave?: The Canyonic Landscape of the Tijuana-San Diego Region
Lesley Stern
In the Midst of Damage
2. Marie Curie's Fingerprint: Nuclear Spelunking in the Chernobyl Zone
Kate Brown
3. Shimmer: When All You Love Is Being Trashed
Deborah Bird Rose
Footprints of the Dead
4. Future Megafaunas: A Historical Perspective on the Scope for a Wilder Anthropocene
Jens-Christian Svenning
5. Ladders, Trees, Complexity, and Other Metaphors in Evolutionary Thinking
Andreas Hejnol
6. No Small Matter: Mushroom Clouds, Ecologies of Nothingness, and Strange Topologies of Spacetimemattering
Karen Barad
7. Haunted Geologies: Spirits, Stones, and the Necropolitics of the Anthropocene
Nils Bubandt
What Remains
8. Ghostly Forms and Forest Histories
Andrew S. Mathews
9. Establishing New Worlds: The Lichens of Petersham
Anne Pringle
Coda: Concept and Chronotope
Mary Louise Pratt
Contributors
Index

Contents
Monsters and the Arts of Living
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Bodies Tumbled into Bodies
Heather Anne Swanson, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Nils Bubandt, and Elaine Gan
1. Deep in Admiration
Ursula K. Le Guin
Inhabiting Multispecies Bodies
2. Symbiogenesis, Sympoiesis, and Art Science Activisms for Staying with the Trouble
Donna Haraway
3. Noticing Microbial Worlds: The Post Modern Synthesis in Biology
Margaret McFall-Ngai
Beyond Individuals
4. Holobiont by Birth: Multilineage Individuals as the Concretion of Cooperative Processes
Scott F. Gilbert
5. Wolf, or Homo Homini Lupus
Carla Freccero
6. Unruly Appetites: Salmon Domestication “All the Way Down”
Marianne Elisabeth Lien
7. Without Planning: The Evolution of Collective Behavior in Ant Colonies
Deborah M. Gordon
At the Edge of Extinction
8. Synchronies at Risk: The Intertwined Lives of Horseshoe Crabs

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing is professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a Niels Bohr Professor at Aarhus University in Denmark, where she codirects Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene (AURA). 

Heather Swanson is assistant professor of anthropology at Aarhus University. 

Elaine Gan is art director of AURA and postdoctoral fellow at Aarhus University. 

Nils Bubandt is professor of anthropology at Aarhus University, where he codirects AURA.