Peak Libido - Sex, Ecology, and the Collapse of Desire

Name: Peak Libido - Sex, Ecology, and the Collapse of Desire
Brand: Polity Press
SKU: 9781509543038
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Автор: Dominic Pettman

Език:

Корици: С меки корици

Издател: Polity Press

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What is the carbon footprint of your libido? In this highly original book, Dominic Pettman examines...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Dominic Pettman

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2020

страници

166

EAN

9781509543038

ISBN

1509543031

Enbook ID

32772446

Издател

Polity Press

Теглоt

236

Размери

213 x 138 x 18

Пълно описание

What is the carbon footprint of your libido? In 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. Drawing 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'. Peak Libido 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.

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