A review by tesscameron
Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Heather Anne Swanson, Nils Bubandt, Elaine Gan

emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

Very interesting read with a good variety of stories told by very smart people with very good educations. Ghosts side was leaps and bounds better than Monsters, the essays were more cohesive to each other and to the theme. The essays in Ghosts were also more approachable and overall written better for larger audiences (ie. They still used lots of scientific words and theories but did a good job of explaining it all in layman’s terms). Monsters felt disjointed and challenging to get through and more than one of the essays seemed to be a better fit for the Ghosts half so I’m confused as to why they split them in the first place. A great read and will definitely come back to some of my favorites essays again.