The metabolic landscape. Perception, practice and the energy transition
By: Gina Glover, Geof Rayner, Jessica Rayner
Contributors: Rayner, Geof, author; Rayner, Jessica, author
Publisher: Black Dog Publishing
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9781908966278
Subjects: Landscape photography; Artistic Photography
Description: This book combines the disciplines of art, science and philosophy to picture and interpret the planet's current state of 'metabolic distress'. Humankind's search for more powerful sources of energy to sustain an urbanizing existence has created an energy transition that, while hugely beneficial to human existence, is now being identified as a source of harm. Just as metabolic disease refers to energy-sourced medical problems, so too the planet, the authors propose, is showing increasing signs of metabolic distress. Through large-scale photographs and a combination of long and short essays "The Metabolic Landscape" is an engaging exploration of the unfolding relationship between energy and the landscape, and our interpretation of it.