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Climate machines, fascist drives, and truth / William E. Connolly.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Connolly, William E., author.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Global environmental change--Philosophy.
- Global environmental change.
- Climatic changes--Philosophy.
- Climatic changes.
- Global environmental change--Political aspects.
- Capitalism--Philosophy.
- Capitalism.
- Truth--Philosophy.
- Truth.
- Philosophy.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (125 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.
- System Details:
- Mode of Access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Summary:
- "In this new installation of his work, William E. Connolly examines entanglements between volatile earth processes and emerging cultural practices. He highlights relays between extractive capitalism, self-amplifying climate processes, migrations, democratic aspirations, and fascist dangers. In three interwoven essays, Connolly takes up thinkers in the "minor tradition" of European thought who, unlike Cartesians and Kantians, cross divisions between nature and culture. He first offers readings of Sophocles and Mary Shelley, asking whether close attention to the Anthropocene could perhaps have arrived earlier had later humanists absorbed their lessons. He then joins Deleuze and Guattari's notion of an abstract machine with contemporary earth sciences, doing so to compare the Antique Little Ice Age in late Rome to relays today between extractive capitalism and accelerating climate processes. The final essay stages a dialogue between Alfred North Whitehead and Michel Foucault about the pursuit of truth during a time of planetary turbulence. With Climate Machines, Fascist Drives, and Truth, Connolly forges incisive interventions into key issues of our time." -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Climate, fascism, truth
- Sophocles, Mary Shelley, and the planetary
- The anthropocene as abstract machine
- The lure of truth.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Connolly, William E. Climate machines, fascist drives, and truth.
- ISBN:
- 9781478007258
- 1478007257
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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