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Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel, eds.
Let’s take as a starting point that “the Earth is moving yet again.” It is shifting, unstable, reactive; it’s different one year, or minute, to the next. In an age of rising seas and mass extinctions, the point hardly needs proving.
The quote comes from the introduction to
Critical Zones: The Science and Politics of Landing on Earth, a tome-sized catalog published in 2020 to accompany an exhibition at the Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany. The philosopher Bruno Latour and the artist/curator Peter Weibel are its organizer and editors. For them, and for a growing cadre of scientists and theorists, “critical zones” are a new framework for understanding the world not as a globe, nor exactly as a serene, self-healing Gaia, but as the thin, contested skin of the Earth on which we actually live: soil and rocks, air and water, plants and trees, animals, and all the marks of humanity physical ones, of course, but also art, pol
Apr 8, 2021
U.P. Notable Book Club will present a virtual session with Upper Peninsula author James H. McCommons on his book âCamera Hunter: George Shiras III and the Birth of Wildlife Photography.â
CRYSTAL FALLS The Crystal Falls Community District Library, in partnership with the U.P. Publishers and Authors Association, has scheduled author events with winners of the U.P. Notable Book List.
The fourth event is with U.P. author and Northern Michigan University professor James H. McCommons, featuring “Camera Hunter: George Shiras III and the Birth of Wildlife Photography,” the first significant biography of Marquette’s famous naturalist George Shiras III in decades. The event will be at 6 p.m. today on Zoom and is open to all U.P. residents free of charge.
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Sault Ste. Marie-based author Mikel Classen is one of the driving forces behind the U.P. Notable Books List. The list features books by Upper Peninsula-based writers or books about the U.P. (Photo courtesy of Victor R. Volkman)
MARQUETTE People who want to have meaningful discussions about something other than national politics, COVID-19 or the economy might want to consider joining the U.P. Notable Books Book Club.
The U.P. Publishers and Authors Association and the Crystal Falls District Library invite people to join the book club, which focuses on what its name says: notable books in the Upper Peninsula.
Crystal Falls District Community Library
Do you love to read? Do you love the raw, untamed, beautiful U.P? Do you miss people? Are you longing to engage with intelligent people such as yourself in meaningful discussions about something other than the 2020 election, COVID-19, the economy, or climate change? Then here is just the thing for you–Join the U.P. Notable Books Book Club.
Here is how. There are 10 books on the 1st Annual U.P. Notable Books List. Eight of the authors have agreed to do a Zoom talk with readers like yourself about their book. Buy these eight books, or check them out from your local library. (If you are buying your books, please consider supporting your local,