Planetary Biostyles

Community-Making and Futures Design in the Age of Extremes

Rodanthi Tzanelli (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

330 Seiten

2025
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
9781035346813 (ISBN)

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This innovative book addresses what ‘life’ is in scholarship and public culture, explores how it has been valued in the Anthropocene since the birth of critical theory, and designs a new approach to understanding biographical styles of life, or ‘biostyles’.

By providing an alternative paradigmatic organisation of approaches to biopolitics, Rodanthi Tzanelli attempts a cross-disciplinary analysis of biopolitical issues arising from contemporary crises including overtourism, travel syndromes and hospitality in a mobile world. The study of communities emerging from this alternative mapping of these ‘biostyles’, is placed in ‘snapshots’ of extreme situations in tourism consumption, artwork, anti-museum design and technological reconfiguration. Global examples demonstrate different ways of approaching the Anthropocene, particularly by mobilising travel as an epistemological tool and incorporating popular culture into current debates.

This book is a key resource for students and academics specialising in futures studies, the sociology of culture, tourism and urban theory, and cultural methodologies. Its interdisciplinary approach also makes it an invaluable read for scholars in the fields of media, communications, and cultural and human geography.

Rodanthi Tzanelli, Professor of Sociology of Culture, School of Sociology and Social Policy and Co-Director of the Bauman Institute, University of Leeds, UK

Contents
PART I FOUNDATIONS AND ORIENTATIONS
1 Rethinking biopolitical imaginaries: styles and planetary
flows of life
2 Economies of attention and the design of viable planetary futures
PART II ‘DAMAGED’ HUMANITY
3 Anthropo-sensing and the anthropo-scenes of damaged
travel(lers)
4 Undoing the diagnostics of power, monstering (human) nature
5 Worldbreaking I and the project of recovery from power
PART III ‘DAMAGED’ EARTH
6 Introducing the geo-scene
7 Environmental imaginaria in the age of extinction:
theming and mytheming a biostylistic ghost
8 Worldbreaking II to document the future: monsters in
artificial paradise(s)
9 The planetary imperative after ‘modernity’: drifting and
wayfaring in the Critical Zone
Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	29.01.2025
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften
	Wirtschaft
ISBN-13	9781035346813 / 9781035346813
Zustand	Neuware