Stacy Alaimo's 'Allo scoperto' Offers Collective Solutions to Eco-Anxiety

Key facts

• Stacy Alaimo is the author of 'Allo scoperto. Politiche e piaceri ambientali in tempi postumani'.
• The book is published by Mimesis, edited by Angela Balzano, and translated by Laura Fontanella.
• Alaimo is a feminist new materialist theorist and director of English Studies at the University of Oregon.
• The volume proposes a collective solution to eco-anxiety through vulnerability, pleasure, and protest.
• Alaimo advocates for 'fight' over 'freeze' or 'flight' in response to environmental catastrophe.
• The book blends literature, art, philosophy, politics, gender studies, and science studies.
• It draws on Michel Foucault's 'The Order of Things' to question the concept of humanity.
• The work is inspired by ecofeminism, cyberfeminism, and trans and queer movements.
• Alaimo's philosophy is influenced by Baruch Spinoza's ethics of transforming sadness into joy.
• The book argues the current crisis is a crisis of imagination and engagement.