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Poetry and the Anthropocene

Ecology, biology and technology in contemporary British and Irish poetry

By: Sam Solnick

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Poetry and the Anthropocene

Ecology, biology and technology in contemporary British and Irish poetry

By: Sam Solnick

This book asks what it means to write poetry in and about the Anthropocene, the name given to a geological epoch where humans have a global ecological impact. Combining critical approaches such as ecocriticism and posthumanism with close reading and archival research, it argues that the Anthropocene requires poetry and the humanities to find new ways of thinking about unfamiliar spatial and temporal scales, about how we approach the metaphors and discourses of the sciences, and about the role of those processes and materials that confound humans’ attempts to control or even conceptualise them. Poetry and the Anthropocene draws on the work of a series of poets from across the political and poetic spectrum, analysing how understandings of technology shape literature about place, evolution and the tradition of writing about what still gets called Nature. The book explores how writers’ understanding of sciences such as climatology or biochemistry might shape their poetry’s form, and how literature can respond to environmental crises without descending into agitprop, self-righteousness or apocalyptic cynicism. In the face of the Anthropocene’s radical challenges to ethics, aesthetics and politics, the book shows how poetry offers significant ways of interrogating and rendering the complex relationships between organisms and their environments in a world increasingly marked by technology.

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Progress in Refrigeration Science and Technology

Proceedings of the XIth International Congress of Refrigeration, Munich, 1963

By: Sam Stuart

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Progress in Refrigeration Science and Technology

Proceedings of the XIth International Congress of Refrigeration, Munich, 1963

By: Sam Stuart

Progress in Refrigeration Science and Technology, Volume I is a collection of papers from the Eleventh International Congress of Refrigeration held in Munich in August-September 1963. These papers deal with the various scientific and technical aspects, designs, and technology of refrigeration. One paper explains technological advances in the use of very low temperature fluids, namely liquid hydrogen and liquid helium as rocket fuels, as bubble chambers, in the study of mesons or hyperons, and in experiments involving the reaction of metals in a wide range of temperature. Another paper examines the requirements for improved food refrigeration and the limitations of certain methods when compared to other cold processing forms. Freeze-drying is also used in biology such as in freeze-drying of biological solutions, tissues, or living organisms. One paper explains the purification method for obtaining very pure hydrogen at high pressures to be used in comparative experiments on the thermodynamical properties of ortho- and para-hydrogen, and their mixtures. Another paper investigates the effect of heat exchange between capillary tube and suction line on the performance of small hermetic compressor systems. This collection is suitable for engineers or technologists in the area of refrigeration, as well as for scientists involved in the space industry and materials research.

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Poetry and the Anthropocene

Ecology, biology and technology in contemporary British and Irish poetry

By: Sam Solnick

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Ecology, biology and technology in contemporary British and Irish poetry

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Poetry and the Anthropocene

Poetry and the Anthropocene

Progress in Refrigeration Science and Technology

Progress in Refrigeration Science and Technology

Poetry and the Anthropocene

Poetry and the Anthropocene

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