{"title":"Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos","description":"\u003cp\u003eAndreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos crafts intricate narratives that blend elements of \u003cem\u003ephilosophy\u003c\/em\u003e and fiction, inviting readers to explore the fluid boundaries between law, environment, and human experience. His works, including titles like \u003cem\u003eBook of Water\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eHydrojustice\u003c\/em\u003e, challenge conventional perspectives through a contemplative lens on water as both a physical and metaphorical presence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough a thought-provoking fusion of \u003cstrong\u003egeneral fiction\u003c\/strong\u003e and philosophical inquiry, Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos examines our relationship with place and otherness, engaging with themes of justice, distance, and transformation. 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In short, hydrojustice is the just confluence of all bodies, human and nonhuman.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor the first time, this book brings questions of justice into line with the current literature on water. Up to now, justice has been understood as an anthropocentric affair, with most existing theories accepting and reinforcing the division between human and nonhuman. This book builds on feminism, ecology, posthumanism, and the current Blue Turn in the humanities and social sciences, and puts questions of justice at their core.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat the book proposes, however, is not simply an ecological concept of justice. Rather, through examples taken from current affairs, science, and the art world, it attempts a radical recalibration of what justice is. The book argues that \u003cem\u003ehydrojustice\u003c\/em\u003e is already here, part of our planetary condition, but it requires unearthing, in the double sense of revealing what is hidden and allowing earth to cede priority to the aquatic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000642650348,"sku":"9781509561643","price":23.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/12638683482725.jpg?v=1763292867"},{"product_id":"our-distance-became-water-by-andreas-philippopoulos-mihalopoulos-9781912475483","title":"Our Distance Became Water","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"We knew very little with any certainty. One thing, though, was confirmed by everyone: that we were not the only ones flooded. For all we knew, every city across the globe had suffered a comparable fate\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs an unnamed city finds itself partially submerged below water, a small community of friends and lovers is forced to adapt to a world that has been radically transformed. An arresting vision of the wages of ecological disaster, \u003cem\u003eOur Distance Became Water\u003c\/em\u003e is at once lyrical, moving, and psychologically acute. Endlessly inventive in both its style and its substance, this is a singularly powerful literary response to environmental change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOur Distance Became Water\u003c\/em\u003e is the debut novel of Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, author of the acclaimed short story collection \u003cem\u003eBook of Water\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47487441010924,"sku":"9781912475483","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/4908ca470c8f840c57923bab3583645c.jpg?v=1775777047"},{"product_id":"book-of-water-by-andreas-philippopoulos-mihalopoulos-9781912475193","title":"Book of Water","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBook of Water\u003c\/em\u003e by Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos is a collection of short stories about desire, fear, life, care, and ecological anxiety, all narrated through the physical and metaphysical presence of water. This water is not the open, bucolic water of the romantic imagination. It is the claustrophobic water of the deep seabed, the flooded cities, the womb. It is a water that brings oblivion, serenity, and salvation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt first impression, the stories are narrated by a multiplicity of voices preoccupied with everyday psychological situations. At some point, however, the quotidian withdraws and gives way to surreal and disorienting moments of ethical, political, psychoanalytical, ecological, and personal challenges. The book is a literary response to the current geological epoch of the Anthropocene, where the effect of the human presence on the planet and its various elements seems by now irreversible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe bodies in this collection are not limited to the human—the nonhuman and inhuman alike centre in the stories. 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