General ecology : the new ecological paradigm / edited by Erich Hörl with James Burton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Burton, James, editor.

Hörl, Erich, editor.

Series:

Theory (Bloomsbury (Firm))

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (384 pages).

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"Ecology has become one of the most urgent and lively fields in both the humanities and sciences. In a dramatic widening of scope beyond its original concern with the coexistence of living organisms within a natural environment, it is now recognized that there are ecologies of mind, information, sensation, perception, power, participation, media, behavior, belonging, values, the social, the political ... a thousand ecologies. This proliferation is not simply a metaphorical extension of the figurative potential of natural ecology: rather, it reflects the thoroughgoing imbrication of natural and technological elements in the constitution of the contemporary environments we inhabit, the rise of a cybernetic natural state, with its corresponding mode of power. Hence this ecology of ecologies initiates and demands that we go beyond the specificity of any particular ecology: a general thinking of ecology which may also constitute an ecological transformation of thought itself is required. In this ambitious and radical new volume of writings, some of the most exciting contemporary thinkers in the field take on the task of revealing and theorizing the extent of the ecologization of existence as the effect of our contemporary sociotechnological condition: together, they bring out the complexity and urgency of the challenge of ecological thought--one we cannot avoid if we want to ask and indeed have a chance of affecting what forms of life, agency, modes of existence, human or otherwise, will participate--and how--in this planet's future."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

List of Contributors ; Acknowledgments ; Series Preface

One - Introduction to general ecology : The ecologization of thinking / Erich Hörl, Translated by Nils F. Schott

Two - Computational logic and ecological rationality / Luciana Parisi

Three - Elements for an ecology of separation : Beyond ecological constructivism / Frédéric Neyrat, Translated by James Burton

Four - General ecology, economy, and organology / Bernard Stiegler, Translated by Daniel Ross

Five - The modern invention of nature / Didier Debaise, Translated by Michael Halewood and James Burton

Six - Deep times and media mines : A descent into the ecological materiality of technology / Jussi Parikka

Seven - Planetary immunity : Biopolitics, Gaia theory, the holobiont, and the systems counterculture / Bruce Clarke

Eight - Ecologizing biopolitics, or, What is the "bio-" of bioart? / Cary Wolfe

Nine - Ecologies of communion, contagion, &c, especially Bataille / David Wills

Ten - Metafiction and general ecology : Making worlds with worlds / James Burton

Eleven - An ecology of differences : Communication, the Web, and the question of borders / Elena Esposito

Twelve - Specters of ecology / Timothy Morton

Thirteen - Devastation / Matthew Fuller and Olga Goriunova

Fourteen - Virtual ecology and the question of value / Brian Massumi

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350014718

1350014710

9781350014725

1350014729

9781350014688

1350014680

OCLC:

981764933