Allison Carruth - "Novel Ecologies" - Julia Adeney Thomas

Allison Carruth will discuss Novel Ecologies: Nature Remade and the Illusions of Tech. She will be joined in conversation by Julia Adeney Thomas. A Q&A and signing will follow the discussion.

At the Co-op.

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About the Book

Novel Ecologies investigates a distinctly California paradigm shaped by the tech industry—what Allison Carruth terms Nature Remade. Through three case studies—synthetic wildlife, the digital cloud and space colonization—the book challenges the conviction that climate change and other environmental crises must be met with planetary-scale technological intervention. Against the world-building gambits of Google, Open AI, SpaceX and a host of start-ups, Carruth marshals the work of writers and artists who imagine provisionally hopeful futures while refusing to forget histories of power and exploitation that have made the world what it is.

About the Author

Allison Carruth is professor in the Effron Center for the Study of America and High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton University, where she directs the Program in Environmental Studies and leads the environmental media and climate storytelling studio Blue Lab. She is the previous author of Global Appetites: American Power and the Literature of Food.

About the Interlocutor

Julia Adeney Thomas is professor of history at the University of Notre Dame and a member of the Anthropocene Working Group.