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Crocodile Fever is at once a travelogue, a fascinating adventure story and an authentic record of little-known information about the wildlife and the people of Papua New Guinea. It records the two years the authors spent in Papua New Guinea and describes their incredible, moving and sometimes hilarious experiences in strange and beautiful places. The text is richly interspersed with vivid colour as well as black and white photographs, illustrations and maps.
"Recent developments in the political, social, environmental and economic dimensions of forest management in Papua New Guinea (PNG) are described. Subjects discussed include: (1) the landowner-government relationship in West New Britain; (2) a social history of the Hawaiian Local Forest Area, East Sepik Province; (3) the landowners' dilemma in the Buhem-Mongi Timber Rights Purchase (TRP) Area; (4) analysis of the failure of a logging project; (5) the commercial intervention of a Malaysian logging company in New Ireland Province; (6) logging in the Madang North Coast TRP; (7) the historical development of the Gogol Woodchip Project; (8) the prospects for logging on Muyow, Milne Bay Province; ...
When Susan Sontag first proposed the idea of an "ecology of images," she meant it as an exhortation to be vigilant against the vast surplus of pictures threatening our ability to truly see. Today, beyond the deep anxieties over a diminishing attention economy, concern focuses on the environmental cost of storing and circulating the digital images that confront us with unprecedented speed. Against the disposable rapidity demanded by digital media, Peter Szendy emphasizes the labor and time required for images to develop and come into view. This inquisitive essay takes us from mimicry in the animal kingdom to the history of the shadow, Pliny's story about the birth of painting to Nabokov's butterflies, the first use of slo-mo in film to the first aerial photograph. Praise for Peter Szendy: "From book to book, Peter Szendy is in the process of constructing one of the most singular philosophical oeuvres of our time." - Laurent de Sutter, Focus vif "A writer of exquisite sensitivity and wit, as well as of impeccable clarity." - Gil Anidjar, Columbia University