Table of Contents

Introduction: Reconstructing the Earth? 1
Part I. The Mirror of the Anthropocene: Geoengineering, Terraforming, and Earth Stewardship
The Copenhagen Chiasm 25
1. The Screen of Geoengineering 27
2. The Mirror of the Anthropocene 34
3. Terraforming: Reconstructing the Earth, Recreating Life 45
4. The Logic of Geopower: Power, Management, and Earth Stewardship 56
Part II. The Future of Eco-constructivism: From Resilience to Accelerationism
Turbulence, Resilience, Distance 71
5. An Ecology of Resilience: The Political Economy of Turbulence 73
6. The Extraplanetary Environment of the Ecomodernists 83
7. The “Political Ecology” of Bruno Latour: No Environments, No Limits, No Monsters (Not Even Fear) 90
8. Anaturalism and Its Ghosts 105
9. The Technological Fervor of Eco-constructivism 118
Part III. An Ecology of Separation: Natured, Naturing, Denaturing
Object, Subject, Traject 133
10. Naturing Nature and Natured Nature 135
11. The Real Nature of an Ecology of Separation 146
12. Denaturing Nature 155
13. The Unconstructable Earth 165
Conclusion: What Is to Be Unmade? 179
Notes 189
Index 225

About the Author

Frédéric Neyrat (Author)
Frederic Neyrat is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is editor of Alienocene, an online journal that charts the environmental humanities and contemporary theory. His first book in English (following thirteen in French) is Atopias: Manifesto for a Radical Existentialism (Fordham, 2018).
Drew S. Burk (Translator)
Drew S. Burk is the translator of more than dozen books in continental philosophy and theory.

Reviews

"An unflinching critique of geoengineering, this book offers hope in a sliver of uncolonized, unmapped, unconstructed space and time, amid the super-storms of ideology, the teleology of historicism, and the bad faith of political actors with vested interests. Planet earth is not an object or a subject, but a trajectory in time and space toward anti-production, entropy, perhaps extinction--cause for a new political ecology in the time of 400+ ppm of C02."---Karen Pinkus, author of Fuel: A Speculative Dictionary

"This is a book of great interest that addresses a topic of considerable concern among environmentalists in North America and Western Europe today--how to find a third way between 'eco-modernism' and an organic and holistic nature."---Ursula Heise, University of California, Los Angeles

"This is a vitally important book that stakes out a new position in the environmental humanities. Neyrat offers both a critique of current tendencies in ecological thought and positive proposals for a different philosophical approach. This is not a book of policy recommendations, but rather of basic foundational concerns that any actually policy will have to address and to be answerable to. A powerful and closely reasoned argument that anyone concerned with the fate of the Earth needs to take into account."---Steven Shaviro, Wayne State University