For a long time we humans have excelled in mimicking nature with the goal of exploiting it.
Now with the existential threat of global climate change on the horizon the ever-provocative
Michael Taussig asks what it would take to change ourselves so as to save our world.
Acknowledging the possibility of collapse and our all-too-human impotence in the face of
accelerating disaster this book is not solely a reflection on our tragic condition but also a
theoretical effort to reckon with those human faculties that have fed our ambition for
dominance over nature. At stake is an ultimate undoing of our sense of control--a mastery of
non-mastery. Animated by the urgency of a planet approaching meltdown Taussig captures our
moment and all its attendant mythologies with luminescent clarity--
