Collection: Deep Time and Planetary Alchemy

Highly original and philosophical takes on deep time, fossils, extraction, speculative futurity, ontology, phenomenology, and more, this collection is inspired in part by the recent Public Books feature on books that address geological scale.

The Memory of the World

The Memory of the World

Ted Toadvine

Deepwater Alchemy

Deepwater Alchemy

Lisa Yin Han

Inside the Spiral

Inside the Spiral

Suzaan Boettger

Subsurface

Subsurface

Karen Pinkus

Timescales

Timescales

Bethany Wiggin, Carolyn Fornoff, Patricia Eunji Kim

Petroturfing

Petroturfing

Jordan B. Kinder

A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None

A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None

Kathryn Yusoff

Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet

Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Nils Bubandt, Elaine Gan, Heather Anne Swanson

Fuel

Fuel

Karen Pinkus

Playing Nature

Playing Nature

Alenda Y. Chang

An Ecotopian Lexicon

An Ecotopian Lexicon

Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Brent Ryan Bellamy

Empirical Ecocriticism

Empirical Ecocriticism

Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Alexa Weik von Mossner, W. P. Malecki, Frank Hakemulder

Theory for the World to Come

Theory for the World to Come

Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer

Noah’s Arkive

Noah's Arkive

Jeffrey J. Cohen, Julian Yates

Stone

Stone

Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

No More Fossils

No More Fossils

Dominic Boyer

Machine

Machine

Thomas Pringle, Gertrud Koch, Bernard Stiegler

All Thoughts Are Equal

All Thoughts Are Equal

John Ó Maoilearca

Life

Life

Davide Tarizzo, Mark William Epstein

Hyperobjects

Hyperobjects

Timothy Morton

Games of Empire

Games of Empire

Nick Dyer-Witheford, Greig de Peuter

Alien Phenomenology, or What It’s Like to Be a Thing

Alien Phenomenology, or What It’s Like to Be a Thing

Ian Bogost

A Geology of Media

A Geology of Media

Jussi Parikka

Code and Clay, Data and Dirt

Code and Clay, Data and Dirt

Shannon Mattern

After Extinction

After Extinction

Richard Grusin

Anthropocene Poetics

Anthropocene Poetics

David Farrier

Variations on Media Thinking

Variations on Media Thinking

Siegfried Zielinski

Thinking Plant Animal Human

Thinking Plant Animal Human

David Wood

Deep Mediations

Deep Mediations

Karen Redrobe, Jeff Scheible

Veer Ecology

Veer Ecology

Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Lowell Duckert