Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence (The Wellek

Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence (The Wellek Library Lectures)

Timothy Morton argues that ecological awareness in the present Anthropocene era takes the form of a strange loop or MÃ¶bius strip, twisted to have only one side. Deckard travels this oedipal path in Blade Runner (1982) when he learns that he might be the enemy he has been ordered to pursue. Ecological awareness takes this shape because ecological phenomena have a loop form that is also fundamental to the structure of how things are.

The logistics of agricultural society resulted in global warming and hardwired dangerous ideas about life-forms into the human mind. Dark ecology puts us in an uncanny position of radical self-knowledge, illuminating our place in the biosphere and our belonging to a species in a sense that is far less obvious than we like to think. Morton explores the logical foundations of the ecological crisis, which is suffused with the melancholy and negativity of coexistence yet evolving, as we explore its loop form, into something playful, anarchic, and comedic. His work is a skilled fusion of humanities and scientific scholarship, incorporating the theories and findings of philosophy, anthropology, literature, ecology, biology, and physics. Morton hopes to reestablish our ties to nonhuman beings and to help us rediscover the playfulness and joy that can brighten the dark, strange loop we traverse.
Country USA
Brand Columbia University Press
Manufacturer Columbia University Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 30964340
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780231177535
ReleaseDate 2018-05-22

Country	USA
Brand	Columbia University Press
Manufacturer	Columbia University Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	30964340
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780231177535
ReleaseDate	2018-05-22

Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence (The Wellek Library Lectures)

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