Dark ecology : for a logic of future coexistence / Timothy Morton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morton, Timothy, 1968- author.

Series:

Wellek Library lecture series at the University of California, Irvine.

Wellek Library lectures in critical theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nature--Effect of human beings on--Philosophy.

Nature.

Human beings--Effect of environment on--Philosophy.

Human beings.

Human ecology--Philosophy.

Human ecology.

Naturalness (Environmental sciences).

wilderness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Timothy Morton argues that ecological awareness in the present Anthropocene era takes the form of a strange loop or Möbius 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Beginning After the End

The First Thread

The Second Thread

The Third Thread

Ending Before the Beginning

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-185) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

Other Format:

Print version: Morton, Timothy, 1968- Dark ecology.

ISBN:

9780231541367

0231541368

OCLC:

945105235