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Timothy W. Luke: Ecocritique: Contesting the Politics of Nature, Economy, and Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 1997.
A Message from Planet Earth
A Robot never objects to what a human does. But it does feel that it can ask some questions. - Lester Del Rey, The Runaway Robot (1965). As one steps into the latest and most impressive book by the productive Timothy Luke, an uncomfortable and insidious feeling begins to well up within the mind, body, and, ultimately, our institutions. In EcoCritique, various contemporary constructs of ecology, as expressed by a number of theorists (Marcuse, Soleri, Bookchin, Naess, Devall and Sessions), practitioners (Foreman, Brown and his associates, among others), and reflected in the acts of Ear^First!, The Worldwatch Institute, and The Nature Conservancy are exposed. And we are left scrambling.
Luke disarms the more radical robot within us - those proponents of deep ecology, bioregionalism, green consumerism, arcology, ecological criticism, and social ecology; he debunks the proposed...