Breathing aesthetics /

Breathing Aesthetics explores aesthetic responses to our contemporary crisis in breathing. Jean-Thomas Tremblay argues that following a global increase of air pollution in the 1970s, and the continuation of racial and extractive capitalism and imperialism, breathing has emerged as a medium through w...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Tremblay, Jean-Thomas (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Durham, North Carolina : Duke University Press, [2022].
Subjects:	Ecocriticism. Environment (Aesthetics) Respiration > Political aspects. Respiration in literature. Respiration in art. Feminism and the arts. Arts and society. Queer theory. LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory. NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Ecologies of the particular
Breathing against nature
Aesthetic self-medication (three regimens)
Feminist breathing
Smog sensing
Death in the form of life
Coda: A queer theory of benign respiratory variations.