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Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence
Timothy Morton
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Description for Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence
Hardback. Series: The Wellek Library Lectures. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; PSAF; RNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 151 x 26. Weight in Grams: 406.
Timothy Morton argues that ecological awareness in the present Anthropocene era takes the form of a strange loop or Mobius 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 ... Read more
Timothy Morton argues that ecological awareness in the present Anthropocene era takes the form of a strange loop or Mobius 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
The Wellek Library Lectures
Condition
New
Weight
405g
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231177528
SKU
V9780231177528
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About Timothy Morton
Timothy Morton is Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University. His books include Ecology Without Nature (2007); The Ecological Thought (2010); Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology After the End of the World (2013); and Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality (2013); and he has published more than 150 essays on ecology, philosophy, art, literature, music, architecture, and food. He has ... Read more
Reviews for Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence
In often witty and humorous language, Timothy Morton provides a kind of affective atlas for the human era. The book calls for scholars to recognize the structures of entwinement between (the human) species and ecological phenomena and to develop modes of thought for accommodating them.
Kate Marshall, University of Notre Dame Dark Ecology is a brave, brilliant interrogation of ... Read more
Kate Marshall, University of Notre Dame Dark Ecology is a brave, brilliant interrogation of ... Read more