Open Rivers (Apr 2018)

Review of Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene

  • Karen Bauer

DOI
https://doi.org/10.24926/2471190x.4003
Journal volume & issue
no. Issue Ten : Spring 2018

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There is something quite embarrassing about reading a book in public that appears to be upside down. The collaborative piece of work known as Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet is separated into two parts: “Monsters and the Art of Living” and “Ghosts on a Damaged Planet.” The reader must physically turn the book upside down to get from one part to the other. On each cover’s bottom right corner, a hint of the other side’s cover is present...

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