We Are But a Moment takes the reader on a brisk tour of the globe that vividly imagines the inescapable crisis of the near future posed by overpopulation, diminishing natural resources, climate change, species extinction, and economic tumult.
It is 2025, and a young White House aide, Aleks, finds himself locked up in quarantine when he tested positive after a routine briefing from a hotspot. Aleks recounts how our much-admired female president became a globally revered leader who unites much of the world under the environmental banner. Aleks’s position as environmental advisor to the president’s policy team gives him a privileged insider’s view into the political maneuvering that has led to U.S. global dominance.
When he discovers unfamiliar files on his computer, he is thrown into a moral crisis over who he trusts, what he believes, and the value of the causes for which he has been fighting as he grapples to make sense of the people and events that led to his quarantine.
Philosophical rather than prescriptive, the book is about how we live and die in the 21st century, what we consume, how we inhabit our world, and whether we can all live and love in the future.
Cuprins
CHAPTERS
1. Day 1
2. Natural Negotiation: Tokyo
3. Day 2: Early Morning
4. Mexico
5. Wikipedia: Water Wars
6. Keon’s Grandma, Lucia’s Dad
7. Phnom Penh
8. Silicon Valley
9. The Atlantic: ‘Why Canada Joined the Alliance’
10. Wikipedia: HEPP
11. Garbage Wars I
12. Garbage Wars II
13. Bringing Bison Back
14. Daffodils
15. Restore the Shore
16. Opt-Outs
17. The Guardian: ‘Opt-Outs for Different Reasons in Eastern Europe’
18. Lu-ci-a!
19. Aunt Christine
20. Google News: Jackson’s Father’s Death, Revisited
21. Melbourne Bushfires
22. The Sydney Morning Herald: ‘Lunt Fiddled While Melbourne Burned’
23. The Sydney Morning Herald: ‘Lunt Not Welcome at Students’ Memorial’
24. Bev
25. The Associated Press: ‘Dame Zaha Hadid Posthumously Wins
Competition to Design ‘Life-Pods’ for Quarantine’
26. Elephants
27. Mbtembo
28. The New York Times: ‘In China, Last Ivory Is Sold to the Highest Bidder’
29. Abad and Samar
30. Still Waters
31. Beijing
32. You’re Welcome
33. Eco Brigades I
34. More Than Hippies on the Team
35.White House Strategy Memo
36. Artforum: ‘Mold, Valley Art’
37. Wikipedia: Valley
38. Rock Star
39. Google News: ‘Ha’areti Water Bigger Than Panama Canal’
40. Beef
41. Mata Ganga
42. The Guardian: ‘US President Lucia Jackson Takes Dip in
India’s Holy River’
43. Big Nanda
44. The Times of India: Op-Ed
45. Red, White, and Blue
46. Sandstorm
47. Sand Brigades
48. China Daily: ‘Beijing Work Brigades Fight Invading Sands’
49. I Have Been Moved
50. Connectivity!
51. After Connectivity
52. Eco Brigades II
53. Fear and Love
54. The Guardian: ‘Eco Safe Funds Artist’s Projects’
55. Pork
56. Opt-Out Investigation
57. Vaccinations
58. The Times: ‘Avian Influenza Outbreak Worst in Dakar History’
59. Clearana
60. Strictly Confidential: Classified Red
61. Megacities
62. The New York Times: ‘Global South America’
63. Google News: ‘Climate Refugees Granted Limited Political Status’
64. The Daily Sun: ‘Protecting Elephants: Townships Resettled’
65. Opening the Dam
66. The New York Times: ‘Changes in Voter Identification in 16 States’
67. Burn-Out Policies
68. Lucia in India
69. My Job
70. Google News: ‘Cordons Sanitaires’
71. Secret Cruise
72. Report on Banff National Park Incident
73. The Shed
74. Please Let Me Go
Despre autor
Ulrich Baer is the author, editor and translator of more than ten books on poetry, photography, literary theory, political philosophy and the memory of historical catastrophes. He has been awarded Guggenheim, Getty, and Humboldt Fellowships, and teaches literature and photography at New York University.
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