{"product_id":"chthonic-cycle","title":"Chthonic Cycle","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eWe all used to be something else, and we will all be something new again in the worlds to come.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eWritten in an effort to ward off existential dread, and to find new understandings and consolations for those similarly afflicted, \u003cem\u003eThe Chthonic Cycle\u003c\/em\u003e is an eccentric and brilliantly curated tour through time, in which fascinating objects glint and spark and the transience of humanity flickers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eAt the heart of Una Cruickshank’s debut are Earth’s interlocking cycles of death and reuse. The blood of a billion-year-old tree emerges from the sea as a drop of amber; 4,756,940 pieces of Lego float towards the Cornish Peninsula; a giant squid’s beak passes through a whale’s intestines into bottles of Chanel No. 5. The violence of colonisation underpins some of the transformations illuminated here, as we follow wave after wave of ruin and remaking.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"\u003eThis is a rare kind of writing, both galaxy-sweeping and microscopically specific. \u003cem\u003eThe Chthonic Cycle\u003c\/em\u003e reminds us to be chastened and scared by our world – its mind-bending age, the insane complexity of its systems, the violent upheavals and mass extinctions – as well as to be awed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43858018566341,"sku":"","price":35.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/9781776922154.jpg?v=1722226750","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/chthonic-cycle","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}