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

Main entry:

Morton, Timothy, 1968- author.

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, 2016.

Description:

xii, 191 pages ; 22 cm.

Series:

The Wellek Library lectures in critical theory

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Beginning After the End -- The First Thread -- The Second Thread -- The Third Thread -- Ending Before the Beginning.
Dust jacket.
Library copy: selected for the Multidisciplinary Research Project on "Architecture and/for the Environment", 2017-2019, developed by the CCA with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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."--Publisher's description.

Resources:
Additional Information at Google Books

ISBN:

9780231177528 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780231177535 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0231177526 (cloth ; alk. paper)
(e-book)
9780231541367
0231541368
9780231541367
0231177534 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Nature Effect of human beings on Philosophy.
Human beings Effect of environment on Philosophy.
Human ecology Philosophy.
Naturalness (Environmental sciences)
Êtres humains Influence sur la nature Philosophie.
Êtres humains Influence de l'environnement Philosophie.
Écologie humaine Philosophie.
Naturalité (Sciences de l'environnement)
wilderness.
08.46 natural philosophy.
Environment and ecology.
Ökologie
Philosophie
Ökologische Philosophie
Environment and Ecology.

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

Holdings:

Location: Library main 293343
Call No.: BIB 238187
Status: Available

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