{"product_id":"peak-libido-sex-ecology-and-the-collapse-of-desire-paperback-softback-9781509543038","title":"Peak Libido; Sex, Ecology, and the Collapse of Desire (Paperback \/ softback) 9781509543038","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePeak Libido\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSex, Ecology, and the Collapse of Desire\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDominic Pettman (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509543038, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 9 October 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e166 pages\u003cbr\u003e20.8 x 13.5 x 1.5 cm, 0.227 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e�\u003ci\u003ePeak Libido\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant and even entertaining book on a very serious topic: the worldwide decline of libido, the loss of the human sex drive and even of fertility, which closely tracks the destruction of environments worldwide. What has been called the Anthropocene leads, paradoxically, to human extinction. Thus the project of imagining an erotic Green New Deal. This is utopian thinking (in the positive sense of the term) at its most audacious.� \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAllan Stoekl, author of \u003ci\u003eBataille's Peak: Energy, Religion, and Postsustainability\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ci\u003ePeak Libido\u003c\/i\u003e does more than take the metaphor of Peak Oil to think about the sexual economies of the twenty-first century; bodily erotics are inextricably intertwined with our consumption, extraction, transformation and destruction of what we have belated come to call �ecology.�  Dovetailing a nuanced theory of waning desire with cultural analyses of sexual commodities, Pettman�s account of the states of desire of twenty-first-century life is lucid, readable, entertaining, original and thought-provoking.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eClaire Colebrook, Pennsylvania State University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWhat is the carbon footprint of your libido?   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this highly original book, Dominic Pettman examines the mutual influence and impact of human desire and ecological crisis. His account is premised on a simple but startling observation: the decline of libido among the world’s population, the loss of the human sex drive, closely tracks the destruction of environments worldwide. The advent of the Anthropocene leads to the decline of eros, the weakening of the link between sexual pleasure and human reproduction, and thus, potentially, to human extinction. Our capacity to care for one another in any meaningful way is being replaced by a restless, technologically-enhanced zombie drive. The environmental crisis of our time is also, and simultaneously, a crisis of human reproduction and of interpersonal intimacy. What Freud called ‘libidinal economy’ has morphed into libidinal ecology.   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on the work of a wide range of thinkers from Georges Bataille to Donna Haraway, Pettman explores the implications of peak libido, linking this development to the new cultural interest in eco-sexuality, polyamory, and other cases of the ‘greening of the libido’. \u003ci\u003ePeak Libido\u003c\/i\u003e is a forceful reminder that our hearts and loins are primarily ecological organs, beholden to their wider environments, and, as such, they share the same fate.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface : Libidinal Ecology\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: This Coital Mortal\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1: Queer Nature: Pink in Tooth and Claw\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2: Whose Libido?: Exploring the Natural Philosophy of Love\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3: Get Thee To a Phalanstery (or How Fourier Can Still Teach Us To Make Lemonade)\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Sex and Sustainability\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Seeking Carnal Knowledge in the Midst of Idiocracy\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Society \u0026amp; culture: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Society \u0026amp; culture: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Society%20\u0026amp;%20culture:%20general%20%5BJF%5D%22\"\u003eJF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52472071094552,"sku":"9781509543038","price":15.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509543038.jpg?v=1785715611","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/peak-libido-sex-ecology-and-the-collapse-of-desire-paperback-softback-9781509543038","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}