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Radical ecology and the crisis of political economy -- Informationalism and ecology -- The dreams of deep ecology -- Community and ecology -- The politics of arcological utopia : Soleri on ecology, architecture, and society -- Searching for alternatives : postmodern populism and ecology -- Re-reading the Unabomber manifesto -- A harsh and hostile land : Edward Abbey's aesthetics, ethics, and politic Anthropocene -- On the road to Marrakesh : a politics of mitigation or mystification for global climate change? -- Seven days in January : the Trump administration's new environmental nationalism -- Science at dusk in the twilight of expertise : the worst hundred days -- Reflections from a damaged planet : Adorno as accompaniment to environmentalism in the Anthropocene -- The dark enlightenment : readings from the book of third nature as political theology.

In this important volume, Timothy W. Luke explores museums' power to shape collective values and social understandings, and argues persuasively that museum exhibitions have a profound effect on the body politic.

Timothy Luke exposes how ecological critics, organizations, and movements manipulate our conception of the environment. Turning the tables on the ecocritics, Luke demonstrates how ecocriticism can move beyond its familiar confines to engage larger cultural, economic, and political questions.

Social Theory and Modernity combines the analytical techniques of political theory and comparative politics as a method for conducting innovative inquiry and research in political science. The focus of political theory, for example, results in new issues for historical and cross-national comparative analysis - whereas comparative analysis provides new parameters for analyzing the ideology of social institutions. Luke elaborates upon Rousseau's discursive style and critical methods, Marx's historical materialism, Marcuse's instrumental rationality, Weber's interpretive method, Gramsci's theoret