The Age of Loneliness: Essays
by Laura Marris
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"In this debut essay collection, Laura Marris reframes environmental degradation by setting aside the conventional, catastrophic framework of the Anthropocene in favor of that of the Eremocene, the age of loneliness, marked by the dramatic thinning of wildlife populations and by isolation between and among species. She asks: how do we add to archives of ecological memory? How can we notice and document what's missing in the landscapes closest to us? Filled with equal parts alienation and show more wonder, each essay immerses readers in a different strange landscape of the Eremocene. Among them are the Buffalo airport with its snowy owls and the purgatories of commuter flights, layovers, and long-distance relationships; a life-size model city built solely for self-driving cars; the coasts of New England and the ever-evolving relationship between humans and horseshoe crabs; and the Connecticut woods Marris revisits for the first time after her father's death, where she participates in the annual Christmas Bird Count and encounters presence and absence in turn." -- show lessTags
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Earlier this year, an International Union of Geological Sciences committee voted against adding the Anthropocene, the human epoch, to Earth’s geological history. We are still, according to those scholars, in the Holocene, an age that began 11,700 years ago when ice sheets melted.
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Common Knowledge
- Original title
- The Age of Loneliness
- Original publication date
- 2024
- Important places
- Connecticut, USA; Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA; Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Buffalo, New York, USA
- Epigraph
- It is a hallmark of our time in human history, that we think we are alone.
-Robin Wall Kimmerer
You hold a face in your eyes a lot and say "I am a citizen of longing for that one person," but what you really mean is... (show all) that you are a citizen of longing for the world.
-Anne Boyer - Dedication
- For the volunteers
- First words
- As we walk, I ask my father why the lake is called lost.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)The birds I know and the birds I've never seen.
- Blurbers
- Nijhuis, Michelle; Miller, Daegan; Howe, Susan; Morin, Tomas Q.; Savage, Kathryn
- Original language
- English
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
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- ASINs
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