Eco Culture : Disaster, Narrative, Discourse.

Cover -- Eco Culture -- Eco Culture -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Notes -- Introduction -- Mediation -- (re)mediation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part I -- MEDIATION -- Chapter 1 -- "For 19.99, Terror at the Finish Line Can Be Yours!" -- The Evolution Of The X-strong Trope -- The Evolution Boston Strong -- Boston Strong And Baudrillard -- Marketing Disaster -- Boston Strong And Red Sox Nation: An Obvious Link -- Whose Community Is It? Who May Use Boston Strong? -- How Strong Are We Really? -- The Allure Of Disaster, The Allure Of Disaster Culture -- The Answers To Life's Greatest Questions In A T-shirt: Disaster Culture And Philosophy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2 -- Retelling Fukushima, Reshaping Citizenship -- Constructing Narratives Of Citizenship In Japan -- Retelling Disaster: Citizens And Mothers In Online Community -- The Special Role Of Mothers -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3 -- The Locals Do It Better? -- Vulnerability And The Emergence Of Local Knowledge -- Local Knowledge As Situated Knowledge -- The Strange Victory Of Occupy Sandy -- Disasters From The Labor Point Of View -- Notes -- Bibiliography -- Chapter 4 -- Monsters in Human Form -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5 -- Communicating Disaster in the Age of Technology -- The Rhetorical Texts -- Deepwater Horizon As A Normal Accident -- Complex Systems -- Interactive Complexity And Tight Coupling -- Incomprehensibility -- Kenneth Burke's "representative Anecdote" -- Achieving Well Control -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6 -- "The Storm of the Century" -- "resilience" And The Specters Of Empire -- Disaster Militarism And Toxic Legacies -- And Poetic Counter-narratives Of Disaster -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part II -- REMEDIATION -- Chapter 7 -- "The Missing Element is the Human Element".

Ontological Difference And Its Ideological Kin -- Ontological Difference In The Anthropocene -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 8 -- Representing the Niger Delta Crisis and Challenging Developmentalist Discourse in Helon Habila's Oil on Water -- Oil On Water And Writer Activism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 9 -- Unpaid Costs -- Metabolic Rift As Debt -- "solastalgia" -- Configuring The Crisis In Popular Culture -- Postmodernity And Pseudo-apocalypse -- An Unrepresentable Disaster -- Business As Usual -- No Future -- From Social Rights To Social Debt -- The Uncanny State Of Human Capital -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 10 -- Appropriating the Zombie Apocalypse -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 11 -- Chronologies of Disaster in -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 12 -- Neohumanism in the Anthropocene -- A Vision Of Decay -- More Human Than Human -- Enduring Love -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Contributors.

This book opens a conversation about the mediated relationship between culture and ecology. The terms ecology and culture are past separation. We are far removed from their prior historical binaric connection, and they coincide through a supplementary role to each other. Ecology and culture are unified.

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