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Earthbound: The Aesthetics of Sovereignty in the Anthropocene

Earthbound: The Aesthetics of Sovereignty in the Anthropocene The AAG Review OF BOOKS Earthbound: The Aesthetics of Sovereignty in the Anthropocene accept either the conventional Daniel Matthews. mappings of sovereign spaces or Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh the old assumptions of harmony University Press, 2021. and wholeness in nature. This is 224 pp. $90.00 ebook not just about how sensations (ISBN 978-1-474-45532-9), work, or a matter of enumerating $90.00 cloth (ISBN 978-1- them and analyzing them in terms 4744-5530-5). of affect, but rather about “under- standing how these elements are Reviewed by Simon ordered in a given constellation” Dalby, Geography and (p. 65). Thinking about how Environmental Studies, political categories render us insensitive to the disruptions of Wilfrid Laurier University, the present is an obviously Waterloo, ON, Canada. important task, as the carefully considered vignettes in this text so clearly suggest. This very well-crafted book grap- ples with the political implications Nonetheless, the conceptual cat- of the new context of the egories in play are still frequently Anthropocene, one that challenges beholden to modern assumptions the modern dichotomies of nature of sovereignty, and Matthews and culture as well as the suppos- (p. 7) uses Sloterdijk’s (2015, 335) edly discrete territorial spaces that phrasing, assumptions of the so bedevil contemporary http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The AAG Review of Books Taylor & Francis

Earthbound: The Aesthetics of Sovereignty in the Anthropocene

The AAG Review of Books , Volume 11 (2): 2 – Apr 3, 2023
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Taylor & Francis
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© 2023 by American Association of Geographers. Published by Taylor & Francis, LLC.
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2325-548x
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10.1080/2325548X.2023.2179829
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The AAG Review OF BOOKS Earthbound: The Aesthetics of Sovereignty in the Anthropocene accept either the conventional Daniel Matthews. mappings of sovereign spaces or Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh the old assumptions of harmony University Press, 2021. and wholeness in nature. This is 224 pp. $90.00 ebook not just about how sensations (ISBN 978-1-474-45532-9), work, or a matter of enumerating $90.00 cloth (ISBN 978-1- them and analyzing them in terms 4744-5530-5). of affect, but rather about “under- standing how these elements are Reviewed by Simon ordered in a given constellation” Dalby, Geography and (p. 65). Thinking about how Environmental Studies, political categories render us insensitive to the disruptions of Wilfrid Laurier University, the present is an obviously Waterloo, ON, Canada. important task, as the carefully considered vignettes in this text so clearly suggest. This very well-crafted book grap- ples with the political implications Nonetheless, the conceptual cat- of the new context of the egories in play are still frequently Anthropocene, one that challenges beholden to modern assumptions the modern dichotomies of nature of sovereignty, and Matthews and culture as well as the suppos- (p. 7) uses Sloterdijk’s (2015, 335) edly discrete territorial spaces that phrasing, assumptions of the so bedevil contemporary

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Published: Apr 3, 2023

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