{"product_id":"planetary-realism-art-against-apocalypse-9781915609236","title":"Planetary Realism: Art Against Apocalypse","description":"\u003cb\u003eTraditions of realism are brought together with the decolonial and ecological concept of \"planetarity\" to understand a new realism in contemporary art.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe devastation left in the wake of modernity and globalization is revealing a fragile and unfamiliar planet, and humanity has awakened to a new real. If the old \"realist\" tools of objectivism have contributed to capitalist society's divorce from the natural world, how are artists finding new ways to make us really see--and feel--the planet? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSurveying a body of planet-facing art, communal practices, and activism, Josephine Berry investigates art's power to break with capitalist realism and decarbonize the imagination. With chapters on feeling as world-making, the rupture of petroleum landscapes, artists' urban exodus, and migration as survival, \u003ci\u003ePlanetary Realism\u003c\/i\u003e delves deeply into art's necessary reimagining of life on Earth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJosephine Berry is an art theorist, writer and political thinker. She has written on art in the neoliberal context of creative cities (\u003ci\u003eNo Room to Move: Radical Art in the Regenerate City\u003c\/i\u003e, 2010), and more recently on the function of autonomous art within contemporary biopower (\u003ci\u003eArt and (Bare) Life: A Biopolitical Inquiry\u003c\/i\u003e, Sternberg 2018). She is Tutor at the Royal College of Art, London and lectures at Goldsmiths College. She edited London-based cultural politics magazine \u003ci\u003eMute\u003c\/i\u003e for over a decade.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Sternberg Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51384347590930,"sku":"9781915609236","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7afa9a16-4214-4cfd-b667-804304d28978.jpg?v=1750171766","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/planetary-realism-art-against-apocalypse-9781915609236","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}