rust: Languages, Bodies and Ecologies

Description

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. It’s happening all the time, all around us. We cover it up. We ignore it. Rust takes on the many meanings of this oxidized substance, showing how technology bleeds into biology and ecology. Jean-Michel Rabaté combines art, science, and autobiography to share his fascination with peeling paints and rusty metal sheets. Rust, he concludes, is a place where things living, built, and remembered commingle. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic Title Page Copyright Page Contents Introduction Chapter 1 How to live with global rust 1 Rust Belt stories 2 Rust and trust 3 Rusting the Age of Iron, or dialectics at a standstill Chapter 2 Hegel and Ruskin: Dialectics of the organic and inorganic 1 Hegel and the restlessness of rust 2 Ruskin: Nothing blushes like rust Chapter 3 Interlude: Blood-work, Rust-Work Chapter 4 Idioms of rust: rats and jackals, Kafka after Hofmannsthal 1 The rust of words 2 Kafka’s rusty scissors Chapter 5 Rust Aesthetics Conclusion: Fougères to Marseilles: Green Rust or edible Rouille? Acknowledgments Notes Introduction Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Conclusion Index