Liquidity, Flows, Circulation - The Cultural Logic of Environmentalization

It has become a truism that capital circulates, that data, populations and materials flow, that money offers liquidity. Placed at the intersection of art, media and cultural studies as well as economic theory, the volume investigates the Cultural Logic of Environmentalization. As flows, circulations and liquidity resurface in all aspects of recent culture and contemporary art, this volume investigates the hypothesis of a genuine cultural logic of environmentalization through these three concepts.
It thus brings together two areas of research which have been largely separate. On the one hand, the volume takes up discussions about ecologies with and without nature and environmentalization as a contemporary form of power and capital. On the other hand, the volume takes its cue from Fredric Jameson's notion that each stage of capitalism is accompanied by a genuine cultural logic. The volume introduces this current of materialist thinking into the ongoing discussions of ecologie s and environmentalization. By analyzing contemporary art, architecture, theater, films, and literature, the 15 contributions by scholars and artists explore different fields where liquid forms, semantics of flow, or processes of circulation emerge as a contemporary cultural logic.

Inhaltsverzeichnis:

7 - 38 Introduction: The Cultural Logic of Environmentalization (Mathias Denecke, Holger Kuhn, Milan Stürmer)41 - 56 Devenir Universidad: Art, Indigenous Science and the Biocultural Reconstruction of Amazonian Knowledges (Ursula Biemann)57 - 68 A Realist Aesthetic of the Sublime: Art, Environment and The Cultural Logic of the Anthropocene (Maryse Ouellet)79 - 96 The Cultural Logic of Green Capitalism: A New Coalition of Geo- and Chronopolitics (Katerina Genidogan)99 - 118 Utopias of Flow and Circulation in the Nineteenth Century: Phalansteries by Charles Fourier and Others (Martin Doll)119 - 140 "Where the Sun Does Not Reach, There the Doctor Will Appear" (Sebastian Kirsch)141 - 162 Critique de la Circulation: Remarks on the Design of Environments (Malte Fabian Rauch)165 - 180 In Turbid Environments (Esther Leslie)181 - 202 Besides One Flow: Quantum Virtuality, Entangled Becomings, and the De-coherence of Ontology (Christian Schwinghammer)203 - 218 Plasmaticness and the Boundar ies of Human Perception (Beny Wagner)221 - 240 Flowing, Flooding, Fibbing: From Fluid Subjects to Environmental Becoming (Yvonne Volkart)241 - 258 The Im:permeable Sieve: Following Gendered Imaginaries of Containers and Leaks (Hannah Schmedes)259 - 276 Lead Fish Story: On the Cultural Logic of Fluidity in Architecture (Yannick Schütte)279 - 294 Circulation and the City Novel (Jacob Soule)295 - 312 The Sublime and the Logistical: Containment Strategies in the Aesthetics of Circulation (Stefan Yong)313 - 332 Essential Workers: Gigwork, Logistics, and the Sweated Labor of Circulation (Annie McClanahan)333 - 334 List of Illustrations335 - 336 List of Color Plates337 - 344 Contributors345 - 360 Color Plates