Sad Planets

“This brilliant text is a Minima Moralia for the twenty-first century.” Claire Colebrook, author of Death of the Posthuman “This book is timely and important. It speaks to the affects surrounding climate change, from fear and dread to complacency or helplessness, even anger.” Kelly Oliver, author of Earth and World “From the two words of its title, Sad Planets generates a rich constellation of interrelated ideas. Its mini-essays, lively and eloquent, are unexpectedly exhilarating despite their apocalyptic subject. This is a book that will transform its readers.” Peter Schwenger, author of The Tears of Things “Sad Planets is both brilliant and original. It works through massive swathes of contemporary culture, and finds in it all massive reasons for us to be melancholy or depressed…  perhaps the real lesson of the book is that there is no way to ever fully deal with our overall reality. But by translating this dilemma from an intellectual one into an emotional one – sadness as the best response we are capable of – Sad Planets not only contributes powerfully to the project anthrodecentering, perhaps the most urgent intellectual task of the early 21st century, but also establishes itself alongside the greatest texts about melancholia in the English language.” Steven Shaviro “Provocative, wry, and eloquent,.. Sad Planets muses on interplanetary topics to convey a sense of global urgency and inchoate loss.” Foreword “Strangely beautiful and bracingly bleak, this successfully renders what could have been a perverse intellectual exercise into a work of genuine feeling.” Publishers Weekly