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... of the “melting down” of existing forms of aesthetic autonomy in the European avant-garde during the 1920s. Jacques Rancière escraches Grupo Etc. Grupo de Arte Callejero Walter Benjamin ...

... peoples especially ferociously, (3) complex lemur-human forest habitats in Madagascar, and (4) North American circumpolar lands and seas subject to ongoing colonialisms in the grip of rapidly melting ice. This chapter makes string figures with the interlocked threads of biologies, arts, and activisms...

..., dinosaurs) have occurred. We may be in the midst of the sixth extinction now. The warming climate affects food production, leading to famine. Syria and Madagascar suffered recent famines; Nigeria, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen are on the brink of famine. Arctic permafrost melting causes damage to buildings...

... marine ecosystems and fisheries and may cause the demise of coral reefs by century's end. Melting soil permafrost destabilizes slopes adjacent to a water body, leading to possible landslides and tsunamis. Such tsunamis threaten small coastal villages in the Arctic. Warmer temperatures result in larger...

... of collaborative and activist art production, arguing that the new forms of insight catalyzed by contemporary engaged art are simply the most recent manifestation of a mode of creative production with many precedents in the modernist tradition. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the “melting down...