Steven Goldsmith is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Blake's Agitation: Criticism and the Emotions (Johns Hopkins, 2013) and Unbuilding Jerusalem: Apocalypse and Romantic Representation (Cornell, 1993).
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"Mere Materialism is a rare thing that appears every so often, capturing the reader with its intelligence, clarity, and sober lyricism. It is stylistically wondrous and strange, thoughtfully argued, urgent, movingly personal and yet rigorous in its scholarship that spans historical periods, genres, and media."---Jacques Khalip, Brown University "Goldsmith deepens the concept of 'mere materialism' by bringing it to bear on elemental philosophy and the contemporary concern with climate change and geological perspective. The book deftly bridges disciplinary gaps as it captures the legacies of slavery and resource extraction that inflect the precarity of human existence and embodiment."---Amanda Boetzkes, author of Plastic Capitalism: Contemporary Art and the Drive to Waste