A philosophical and cultural distillation of the Bleak joys in today\'s ambivalent ecologies and patterns of life Bleak Joys develops an understanding of complex entities and processes--from plant roots to forests to ecological damage and its calculation--as aesthetic.
It is also a book about "bad" things, such as anguish and devastation, which relate to the ecological and technical but are also constitutive of politics, the ethical, and the formation of subjects..
A philosophical and cultural distillation of the Bleak joys in today\'s ambivalent ecologies and patterns of life Bleak Joys develops an understanding of complex entities and processes--from plant roots to forests to ecological damage and its calculation--as aesthetic