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

4.0

A beautiful, scary, informative and mindset-altering assemblage of essays, stories and art-pieces from thinkers and activists across fields of the humanities (or posthumanities) and sciences. Beautiful thinking on where the heck to go from here. The main thing that's lacking is instruction beyond this mindset, which could be summarized as working towards multikinded (as opposed to multispecies) connection and unity. What does this look like in our lives? How can we create community with these concepts and materialize them in our lives? These are questions that ARE answered (if only in part) in books like Staying with the Trouble by Haraway and The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Tsing, but not deeply delved into by these thinkers. Essential ideas, though, for anyone looking for a place to put their hope.