Reactivating Elements: Chemistry, Ecology, Practice Papadopoulos Dimitris
Reactivating Elements: Chemistry, Ecology, Practice Papadopoulos Dimitris The contributors to Reactivating Elements examine chemicals as they mix with soil, air, water, and fire to shape Earth's…
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Reactivating Elements: Chemistry, Ecology, Practice Papadopoulos Dimitris
The contributors to Reactivating Elements examine chemicals as they mix with soil, air, water, and fire to shape Earth's troubled ecologies today. Engaging with the nonlinear historical significance of elemental thought across fields--chemistry, the biosciences, engineering, physics, science and technology studies, the environmental humanities, ecocriticism, and cultural studies--the contributors examine the relationship between chemistry and ecology, probe the logics that render wind as energy, excavate affective histories of ubiquitous substances such as plastics and radioactive elements, and chart the damage wrought by petrochemical industrialization. They invoke the elements with all their ambivalences as chemical categories, material substances, social forms, forces and energies, cosmological entities, and epistemic objects.
Throughout, the volume illuminates how elements