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Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence


Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence

Paperback by Morton, Timothy

Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence

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ISBN:
9780231177535
Publication Date:
12 Jun 2018
Language:
English
Publisher:
Columbia University Press
Pages:
208 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 20 - 21 May 2024
Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence

Description

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

Acknowledgments Beginning After the End The First Thread The Second Thread The Third Thread Ending Before the Beginning Notes Index

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