Planetary Realism
Planetary Realism
Art Against Apocalypse
by Josephine Berry

Author(s)
Josephine Berry
Publication, year
London : Sternberg, 2025
Scope
232 Pages, illustrated, 24 cm.
Carrier
Book
ISBN
978-1-915609-23-6

The devastation left in the wake of modernity and globalization is revealing a fragile and unfamiliar planet, and humanity has awakened to a new real. If the old “realist” tools of objectivism have contributed to capitalist society’s divorce from the natural world, how are artists finding new ways to make us really see—and feel—the planet? Surveying a body of planet-facing art, communal practices, and activism, Josephine Berry investigates art’s power to break with capitalist realism and decarbonize the imagination. With chapters on feeling as world-making, the rupture of petroleum landscapes, artists’ urban exodus, and migration as survival, Planetary Realism delves deeply into art’s necessary reimagining of life on Earth


Keywords
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Location
Cabinet 30 - 4: Tentacular Thinking ; Mind Map'