Texts and textures: approaching an age of human-made nature through the particulate, the volatile, and the radiant.We have entered the Anthropocene era-a geological age of our own making, in which what we have understood to be nature is made by man. We need a new way to understand the dynamics of a new epoch. These volumes offer writings that approach the Anthropocene through the perspectives of grain, vapor, and ray-the particulate, the volatile, and the radiant. The first three volumes-each devoted to one of the three textures-offer a series of paired texts, with contemporary writers responding to historic writings. A fourth volume offers a guide to the project as a whole.Grain: Granular materials add up to concrete forms; insignificant specks accumulate into complex entities. The texts in this volume narrate some of the fundamental qualities of the granular. In one pairing...
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