CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
1.   Ecosickness
Sickness in a Technoscientific Age
Life, Ethics, and Action
Ecosickness in the Field
Outline of the Book
2.   AIDS Memoirs Out of the City: Discordant Natures
Prologue
Contested Natures
North Enough’s “Difficult Beauties”
The “Con” in Close to the Knives
Discordant Feelings, Suspicious Stances
Discord in Activism
3.   Richard Powers’s Strange Wonder
“Weirdly Alive” with Wonder
“The Ordinary by Another Name”
“Struggling with Complex Interactions”
“The Ethic of Tending”
4.   Infinite Jest’s Environmental Case for Disgust
Detached Dispositions
“Experial” Ambitions
Body Building
Affective Itineraries
How to Do Things with Disgust
5.   The Anxiety of Intervention in Leslie Marmon Silko and Marge Piercy
Disrupting the “Pattern of Disease”
“A Single Configuration” of Land and Body
Iniquitous Interventions
Anxious Apocalypse
Squirming and Trembling
Conclusion: How Does It Feel?
Notes
Works Cited
Index