Siem commented on Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
I have finally finished the 'Ghosts' half of the book, and I can't wait to get to read about monsters. I'm going to quote right from the middle of the book here, where the 'Ghosts' and 'Monsters' sections meet: "On a damaged planet monsters and ghosts are figure hiding in plain sight. They point us to forms of noticing the crosscut forms of knowledge, official and vernacular, science and storytelling. They show us co-species practices of living. If monsters are excess, ghosts are absence and invisibility. Monsters are entangled - and contaminated- bodies. Ghosts suffuse landscapes with many kinds of time. Following ghosts and following monsters are different ways of knowing the terrors of the Anthropocene."