“Plastic pollution has reached crisis proportions, and false solutions abound. But as The Problem with Plastic shows, there are real solutions out there. And, fortunately, there are people like Judith Enck working to enact them.” —Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth ExtinctionA powerful look at plastic’s impact on human health and the environment, and how we can fight back by putting people and the planet over pla...

Addressing plastics can feel overwhelming. Guilt, shame, anger, hurt, fear, dismissiveness, and despair abound. Beyond Straw Men moves beyond “hot take” or straw man fallacies by illustrating how affective counterpublics mobilized around plastics reveal broader stories about environmental justice and social change. Inspired by on- and offline organizing in the Global South and the Global South of the North, Phaedra C. Pezzullo engages public controversies and policies through anal...

Over the past 20 years, the role of phenotypic plasticity in Darwinian evolution has become a hotly debated topic among biologists and philosophers of science. For instance, in the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, a new form of evolutionary theory that aims to include processes not taken into account by standard theory (the Modern Synthesis), the question of the remarkable plasticity of living beings is central.Beyond Lamarckism: Plasticity in Darwinian Evolution, 1890–1970 shows t...

“An eye-opening guide on how to lessen one’s dependence on plastics. . . . This is a clarion, convincing wake-up call to the scope of the global plastic problem and what readers can do about it. —Publishers WeeklyEmbrace a plastic-free lifestyle with more than 100 simple, stylish swaps for everything from pens and toothbrushes to disposable bottles and the 5 trillion plastic bags we use—and throw out—every year.Use a natural loofah, not a syn...

Is natural selection the sole driving force of evolution, or are deeper mechanisms at play? Beyond Natural Selection challenges the conventional Darwinian framework by exploring alternative and complementary processes that shape life’s complexity—ranging from environmental plasticity and quantum consciousness to morphogenic fields and self-organizing systems.This book examines the astonishing adaptability of species, such as the phase shifts of locusts, to reveal how organisms dyna...

This book analyses the concept of creation from the perspective of philosophy, psychoanalysis, and Life sciences. What does it mean to think life beyond form? The essays gathered in this book enact a shared gesture: to interrogate the living, the subject, the body, and knowledge not from the standpoint of what is given, but from that which erupts, from that which emerges without guarantee, from that which occurs without having been foreseen. Situated at the intersections of ethics and scie...