Our Distance Became Water

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

249 kr

Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar. Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249 kr.

“We knew very little with any certainty. One thing, though, was confirmed by everyone: that we were not the only ones flooded. For all we knew, every city across the globe had suffered a comparable fate”.As an unnamed city finds itself partially submerged below water, a small community of friends and lovers is forced to adapt to a world that has been radically transformed. An arresting vision of the wages of ecological disaster, Our Distance Became Water is at once lyrical, moving, and psychologically acute. Endlessly inventive in both its style and its substance, this is a singularly powerful literary response to environmental change. Our Distance Became Water is the debut novel of Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, author of the acclaimed short story collection Book of Water.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-01-31
Mått230 x 123 x 19 mm
Vikt360 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor312
FörlagERIS
ISBN9781912475483

Tillhör följande kategorier

Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos is an academic / artist / fiction author. His practice includes legal theory / performance / ecological pedagogy / lawscaping / performance lecture / video art / spatial justice / moving-poems / critical autopoiesis / online performance / radical ontologies / installation art / picpoetry / performance machines / fiction writing / sculpture / wave-writing / political geography / clay making / gender and queer studies / painting / continental philosophy / posthumanism / anthropocenes. He is Professor of Law & Theory at the University of Westminster, and Director of The Westminster Law & Theory Lab. His academic books include the monographs Absent Environments (2007), Law, Justice, Society (2009), and Spatial Justice: Body Lawscape Atmosphere (2014). His collection of stories Book of Water is published in Greek (Thines, 2017) and English (ERIS, 2022). His art practice has been shown at Palais de Tokyo, the 58th Venice Art Biennale 2019, the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale 2016, the Tate Modern, Inhotim Instituto de Arte Contemporânea Brazil, Arebyte Gallery, Ca’ Pisani Venice, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, etc.

This is metamodernist literary writing at its finest. . . By incorporating a modernist, stream-of-consciousness style into his conceptual methodology of wavewriting, Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos masterfully addresses the limitations of an outmoded postmodernism. Encompassing multidirectional conflicts and confluences, oscillatory and speculative, Our Distance Became Water confronts us with the anthropogenic consequences of our own capitalist hubris, and gifts us a symphonic prose poem of wavewriting, as crafted and beautiful and delicate as Murano glass.