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![Fire A Very Short Introduction [Audiobook]](https://i114.fastpic.ru/big/2021/0105/8a/d14fd337e4b9dd4ffc604462dc50118a.jpeg) Andrew C. Scott, James Cameron Stewart (Narrator), "Fire: A Very Short Introduction" English | ASIN: B08QL3TC86 | 2020 | MP3@64 kbps | ~04:46:00 | 136 MB Fire is rarely out of the headlines, from large natural wildfires raging across the Australian or Californian countrysides to the burning of buildings such as the disasters of Grenfell tower and Notre Dame. Fire on these scales can represent a serious risk to human life and property. But the advent of fire made and controlled by humans also represented a crucial point in our evolution, allowing us to cook our food, forge our weapons, and warm our homes. This Very Short Introduction audiobook covers the fundamentals of fire, whether wild or under human control, starting with the basics of ignition, combustion, and fuel. Andrew Scott considers both natural wildfires and the role of humans in making and suppressing fire. Despite frightening reports of wildfire destruction, he also shows how landscape fires have been part of our planet's history for 400 million years and do not always have to be extinguished. He also considers the problem of fires in urban settings, including new ways to prevent fires. The cost of wildfire can be steep - as well as the burning, post-fire erosion and flooding can have a great impact on both humans and the environment. It can also have a lasting effect in shaping ecosystems and plant life. Scott ends by examining the relationship between fire and the climate and considering the future of wildfire in a warming world. ![Becoming Human Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World [Audiobook]](https://i114.fastpic.ru/big/2021/0105/38/b691d746c7db2fa780bd4ea2d6958238.jpeg) Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, Diana Blue (Narrator), "Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World" English | ASIN: B08QVDMY9F | 2020 | MP3@64 kbps | ~10:43:00 | 304 MB Rewriting the pernicious, enduring relationship between blackness and animality in the history of Western science and philosophy, Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World breaks open the rancorous debate between Black critical theory and posthumanism. Through the cultural terrain of literature by Toni Morrison, Nalo Hopkinson, Audre Lorde, and Octavia Butler, the art of Wangechi Mutu and Ezrom Legae, and the oratory of Frederick Douglass, Zakiyyah Iman Jackson both critiques and displaces the racial logic that has dominated scientific thought since the Enlightenment. In so doing, Becoming Human demonstrates that the history of racialized gender and maternity, specifically antiblackness, is indispensable to future thought on matter, materiality, animality, and posthumanism. Jackson argues that African diasporic cultural production alters the meaning of being human and engages in imaginative practices of world-building against a history of the bestialization and thingification of blackness - the process of imagining the Black person as an empty vessel, a non-being, an ontological zero - and the violent imposition of colonial myths of racial hierarchy. What emerges is a radically unruly sense of a being, knowing, feeling existence: one that necessarily ruptures the foundations of "the human". |
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