Author: Isabelle Stengers<br />File Type: pdf<br />This book is addressed to everyone who is struggling and experimenting today, to everyone who is a true contemporary of what Stengers dares to call the intrusion of Gaia, this nature that has left behind its traditional role and now has the power to question us all. In Catastrophic Times is neither a book of prophecy nor a survival guide. Here, Stengers reminds us that it falls to us to experiment with the apparatuses that make us capable of surviving without sinking into barbarism, to create what nourishes trust where panicked impotence threatens.**About the AuthorIsabelle Stengers teaches philosophy of science at the Free University of Brussels. Andrew Goffey is Associate Professor of Critical Theory and Cultural Studies at the University of Nottingham. He is the coeditor, with Eric Alliez, of The Guattari Effect and the translator of Isabelle Stengers and Philippe Pignarres Capitalist Sorcery, of Felix Guattaris Schizoanalytic Cartographies, and of work by Maurizio Lazzarato, Barbara Cassin, and Etienne Balibar. He is also coeditor of the journal Computational Culture.