Introduction: Reconstructing the Earth? 1
Part I. The Mirror of the Anthropocene: Geoengineering, Terraforming, and Earth Stewardship
The Copenhagen Chiasm 25
1. The Screen of Geoengineering 27
2. The Mirror of the Anthropocene 34
3. Terraforming: Reconstructing the Earth, Recreating Life 45
4. The Logic of Geopower: Power, Management, and Earth Stewardship 56
Part II. The Future of Eco-constructivism: From Resilience to Accelerationism
Turbulence, Resilience, Distance 71
5. An Ecology of Resilience: The Political Economy of Turbulence 73
6. The Extraplanetary Environment of the Ecomodernists 83
7. The "Political Ecology" of Bruno Latour: No Environments, No Limits, No Monsters (Not Even Fear) 90
8. Anaturalism and Its Ghosts 105
9. The Technological Fervor of Eco-constructivism 118
Part III. An Ecology of Separation: Natured, Naturing, Denaturing
Object, Subject, Traject 133
10. Naturing Nature and Natured Nature 135
11. The Real Nature of an Ecology of Separation 146
12. Denaturing Nature 155
13. The Unconstructable Earth 165
Conclusion: What Is to Be Unmade? 179
Notes 189
Index 225