CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. INTRODUCTION. ELEMENTS: FROM COSMOLOGY TO EPISTEME AND BACK 1
5. 1 RECEIVING THE GIFT: EARTHLY EVENTS, CHEMICAL INVARIANTS, AND ELEMENTAL POWERS 18
6. 2 CHEMICALS, ECOLOGY, AND REPARATIVE JUSTICE 34
7. 3 ELEMENTARY FORMS OF ELEMENTARY FORMS: OLD, NEW, AND WAVY 70
8. 4 SUBSTANCE AS METHOD: BROMINE, FOR EXAMPLE 84
9. 5 ELEMENTAL GHOSTS, HAUNTED CARBON IMAGINARIES, AND LIVING MATTER AT THE EDGE OF LIFE 108
10. 6 THE ARTIFICIAL WORLD 131
11. 7 TILTING AT WINDMILLS 151
12. 8 CROWDING THE ELEMENTS 176
13. 9 EMBRACING BREAKDOWN: SOIL ECOPOETHICS AND THE AMBIVALENCES OF REMEDIATION 196
14. 10 EXTERNALITY, BREATHERS, CONSPIRACY: FORMS FOR ATMOSPHERIC RECKONING 231
15. 11 REIMAGINING CHEMICALS, WITH AND AGAINST TECHNOSCIENCE 257
16. Contributors 280
17. Index 285