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Tenement Press, prose

Publication Date: August 23, 2024

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Giovanbattista Tusa takes the commitment of lending his voice to the voiceless further, reaching the depth that the Anthropocene demands from us. He finds the words that wont fill the disquiet and the terror of the illegible revolt of the elements against our way of production. The fury of climate deregulation and the ecological crisis have a history and a foreseeable future that we now must become acquainted with. This book is a magnificent tool to help us begin to accomplish the most urgent task of contemporary humankind: the only one that can save us.

Claire Fontaine

Our age is characterised by the increasing humanisation of a planet that is more and more subject to metaphoric representation and visualisation. The memorialisation, anthropomorphism and narratological charge of time has birthed an intellectual industry in which the summation of history plays out like a hand of cards. A game in which retrospect and hindsight informs our present and sits us ever at the mercy of prediction and chance in a time increasingly defined by catastrophe, and as emergent crises affect every stratum of life and lived experience. Giovanbattista TusasTerra Cosmica/Traces of Georealismis the result of a series of lectures and essaysa quintet of pieces published over the course of a four-year periodthat, woven together into a new collation of interlinked fragments, calls time on time to consider the new form of planetary realism resultant of this restructuring of the imagination.Terra Cosmicapresents a cosmic remapping of our modes of thinking that assumes that our contemporary moment is absented from its representability, its history of representations, thus remaining open to a sense of its own infinity. Tusas work is a scrutiny of our exosystemic condition; a suite of exploratory antagonisms on the need for a new philosophical perspectivism of time, of earth, and a new charter for the foundations of thought and thinking. Tusas is a mineral anarchy; a study of our vertigo; a reorientation of an effort to explore human duration via allegory, legend, and symbol; a consideration of a necessary metamorphosis of perspective in our contemporary moment.