{"product_id":"sad-planets-hardback-9781509562350","title":"Sad Planets (Hardback) 9781509562350","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSad Planets\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDominic Pettman (Author), Eugene Thacker (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509562350, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 29 March 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e488 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.8 x 14.5 x 3.3 cm, 0.748 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\u003cp\u003e\"This brilliant text is a \u003ci\u003eMinima Moralia\u003c\/i\u003e for the twenty-first century.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eClaire Colebrook, author of \u003ci\u003eDeath of the Posthuman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This book is timely and important. It speaks to the affects surrounding climate change, from fear and dread to complacency or helplessness, even anger.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKelly Oliver, author of \u003ci\u003eEarth and World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"From the two words of its title, \u003ci\u003eSad Planets\u003c\/i\u003e generates a rich constellation of interrelated ideas. Its mini-essays, lively and eloquent, are unexpectedly exhilarating despite their apocalyptic subject. This is a book that will transform its readers.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Schwenger, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Tears of Things\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSad Planets\u003c\/i\u003e is both brilliant and original. It works through massive swathes of contemporary culture, and finds in it all massive reasons for us to be melancholy or depressed… perhaps the real lesson of the book is that there is no way to ever fully deal with our overall reality. But by translating this dilemma from an intellectual one into an emotional one – sadness as the best response we are capable of – Sad Planets not only contributes powerfully to the project anthrodecentering, perhaps the most urgent intellectual task of the early 21st century, but also establishes itself alongside the greatest texts about melancholia in the English language.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSteven Shaviro\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Provocative, wry, and eloquent,... \u003ci\u003eSad Planets\u003c\/i\u003e muses on interplanetary topics to convey a sense of global urgency and inchoate loss.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eForeword\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Strangely beautiful and bracingly bleak, this successfully renders what could have been a perverse intellectual exercise into a work of genuine feeling.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers\u003c\/i\u003e Weekly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“One of the great merits of Sad Planets is the honesty of its nihilistic feelings and embrace of melancholy, an honesty that never slides into cynicism. There is cheap pessimism and there is thoughtful pessimism—\u003ci\u003eSad Planets\u003c\/i\u003e is the latter.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e ldquo;One of the great merits of Sad Planets is the honesty of its nihilistic feelings and embrace of melancholy, an honesty that never slides into cynicism. There is cheap pessimism and there is thoughtful pessimism—Sad Planets is the latter.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\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\"\u003e“Everything is sad,” wrote the Ancient poets. But is this sadness merely a human experience, projected onto the world, or is there a gloom attributable to the world itself? Could the universe be forever weeping the “tears of things”?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn this series of meditations, Dominic Pettman and Eugene Thacker explore some of the key “negative affects” – both eternal and emergent – associated with climate change, environmental destruction, and cosmic solitude. In so doing they unearth something so obvious that it has gone largely unnoticed: the question of how we should feel about climate change. Between the information gathered by planetary sensors and the simple act of breathing the air, new unsettling moods are produced for which we currently lack an adequate language. Should we feel grief over the loss of our planet? Or is the strange feeling of witnessing mass extinction an indicator that the planet was never “ours” to begin with? Sad Planets explores this relationship between our all-too-human melancholia and a more impersonal sorrow, nestled in the heart of the cosmic elements.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpanning a wide range of topics – from the history of cosmology to the “existential threat” of climate change – this book is a reckoning with the limits of human existence and comprehension. As Pettman and Thacker observe, never before have we known so much about the planet and the cosmos, and yet never before have we felt so estranged from that same planet, to say nothing of the stars beyond.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Sequence 1: In Space No One Can Hear You Weep \u003cbr\u003e Sequence 2: Dark Star\u003cbr\u003e Sequence 3: Planetary Sorrow\u003cbr\u003e Sequence 4: Comets, Importing Change\u003cbr\u003e Sequence 5: Last Life\u003cbr\u003e Sequence 6: Unearthly\u003cbr\u003e Sequence 7: Entropology\u003cbr\u003e Sequence 8: Omen of the World\u003cbr\u003e Sequence 9: Shapes of Sorrow\u003cbr\u003e Sequence 10: Liquid Sky\u003cbr\u003e Sequence 11: Dark Crystals\u003cbr\u003e Sequence 12: Prayers for Rain\u003cbr\u003e Sequence 13: Quiet Despair\u003cbr\u003e Sequence 14: The Last Philosopher\u003cbr\u003e Sequence 15: Solastalgia\u003cbr\u003e Sequence 16: The Clever Beasts\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Sociology%20\u0026amp;%20anthropology%20%5BJH%5D%22\"\u003eJH\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":52475092140312,"sku":"9781509562350","price":43.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509562350.jpg?v=1785804738","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/sad-planets-hardback-9781509562350","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}