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Manual for a Future Desert

 - Manual for a Future Desert
Finding a future desert without deserting the future.
The desert and desertification are concepts with unstable, unfixed definitions that haunt current politics and aesthetics. Manual for a Future Desert proposes a full-spectrum scanning of the desert and its multiple implications across cultural, technological, political, and ecological concerns. Emerging from an artistic research program conducted in the Chihuahuan Desert on western Texas, this book is a time-space capsule; it brings together contributions by 22 researchers, philosophers, artists, and ecologists, collecting routes, tools, and understandings on the desert in order to address and act upon issues that shape present and future realities. It is a manual for tapping into the exigency of the desert; it determines the coordinates for finding a future desert without deserting the future.
Edited by Ida Soulard, Abinadi Meza, Bassam El Baroni.
Texts by Gloria Anzaldúa, Agency Architecture, Olga Bannova, Bassam El Baroni, Amanda Beech, Antoine Bousquet, Ingrid Burrington, Aaron S. Davidson, Diana K. Davis, Melissa Dubbin, Keller Easterling, Fabien Giraud, Bruce Glasrud, Alfredo Gonzáles-Ruibal, Jonathan R. Harvey, Jeremy Lecomte, Stephanie LeMenager, Abinadi Meza, Laura Huertas Millán, Jason Bahbak Mohaghnegh, Reza Negarestani, Chris Taylor, Ida Soulard.
 
published in February 2022
English edition
14 x 22 cm (hardcover, dust jacket)
368 pages (ill.)
 
ISBN : 978-88-6749-452-1
EAN : 9788867494521
 
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