Top 10 ecocultural theory books

Adrian Ivakhiv has assembled a short list of the top 60 books of the past ten years on ecocultural theory.   Fantastic reading list – his personal top ten are:

1. William E. Connolly, Neuropolitics: Thinking, Culture, Speed (University of Minnesota Press, 2002)

2. Arturo Escobar, Territories of Difference: Place, Movements, Life, Redes (Duke University Press, 2008)

3. Graham Harman, Prince of Networks: Bruno Latour and Metaphysics (re.press, 2009)

4. Karen Barad, Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning (Duke University Press, 2007)

5. Joachim Radkau, Nature and Power: A Global History of the Environment (Cambridge University Press, 2008; orig. German text 2002)

6. Evan Thompson, Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind (Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 2007)

7. Manuel Delanda, Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy (Continuum, 2002)

8. David Skrbina, Panpsychism in the West (MIT Press, 2005)

9. Stefan Helmreich, Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas (University of California Press, 2009)

10. (tie)  Michael M. J. Fischer, Anthropological Futures (Duke University Press, 2009)
(tie) Teresa Brennan, The Transmission of Affect (Cornell University Press, 2004)

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