Berry, Josephine. 2025. Planetary Realism: Art Against Apocalypse. London: Sternberg Press. ISBN 9781915609236 [Book] (In Press)

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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.

Item Type:	Book
Keywords:	art; ecology; aesthetics; decolonisation; realism; capitalist realism; ecosocialism; degrowth; planetarity; climate emergency; globalisation; petro-modernity; migration; diaspora; autopoiesis; biophilosophy
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Media, Communications and Cultural Studies
Date:	1 March 2025
Item ID:	38329
Date Deposited:	12 Feb 2025 13:39
Last Modified:	12 Feb 2025 13:39
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/38329

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