The Resilient Stain. Book review of The Three Sustainabilities: Energy, Economy, Time

(Stoekl, A., 2021)

Authors

  • Amanda Boetzkes University of Guelph

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1344/jnmr.v8.43463

Keywords:

Postsustainability, energy economy, existentialism, ecological crisis, ruins

Abstract

This article is a book review of The Three Sustainabilities: Energy, Economy, Time (University of Minnesota Press, 2021) by Allan Stoekl. The book marks a new contribution to the critical theory of ecology by one of the translators of the writings of George Bataille. The article situates the book in relation to Stoekl’s previous theorization of postsustainability, and considers its insights with regard to recent accounts of systems theory, energy humanities, continental philosophy and literature. The author considers how the spectre of extinction governs Stoekl’s theorization of three interleaved versions of sustainability.

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Author Biography

Amanda Boetzkes, University of Guelph

Amanda Boetzkes is Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory at the University of Guelph.  Her research analyzes the relationship between perception and representation through the lens of aesthetics, the mediation of environments, patterns of human waste, and the global energy economy.  She is the author of Plastic Capitalism: Contemporary Art and the Drive to Waste (MIT Press, 2019) and The Ethics of Earth Art (University of Minnesota Press, 2010). Coedited books include Heidegger and the Work of Art History (2014), Artworks for Jellyfish and Other Others (2022) and the forthcoming volume Art’s Realism in the Post-Truth Era (2024).

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Published

2023-07-31

Issue

Vol. 8 (2023): Eighth issue

Section

Affecting Affirmative Reviews

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