Philosophy After Nature (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Braidotti, Rosi; Dolphijn, Rick

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The significant changes that have dominated the social and the scientific world over the last thirty years have brought about upheavals and critical re-appraisals that have proved quite positive in fostering 21st century thought. This interdisciplinary collection of state-of-the-art essays offers innovative and thought-provoking insights concerning contemporary philosophical and cultural reflection on the nature-culture interaction. Starting from the assumption that the binary opposition between the two terms has been replaced by a continuum of the two, the volume explores both the terms of this new interaction, and its implications.

Technology occupies a central place in the shift towards a nature-cultural continuum, but it is not the only factor. The consequences of economic globalization, notably the global spread of digital mediation, also account for this change of perspective. Last but not least the climate change issue and a renewed urgency around the state of the environmental crisis also contribute to bring the 'natural' much closer to home. Digital mediation has by now become a standard way to live and interact. The electronic frontier has altered dramatically the practice of education and research, especially in the Humanities and social sciences, with direct consequences for the institutional practice and the methodology of these disciplinary fields. This book aims to explore the implications of these complex shifts for the practice of critical thinking.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786603876
• Artikelnr.: 48568315

Autorenporträt

Rosi Braidotti is Distinguished University Professor and founding Director of the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University. Her most recent books are The Posthuman (2013), Nomadic Subjects (2011) and Nomadic Theory (2011) www.rosibraidotti.com Rick Dolphijn is Assistant Professor in Media Theory/Cultural Theory at Utrecht University. He published work includes Foodscapes: Towards a Deleuzian Ethics of Consumption (2004) and (with Iris van der Tuin) New Materialism: Interviews and Cartographies (2012).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Nature
and After... Rosi Braidotti and Rick Dolphijn / Part I: After Matter / 2. Information and Thought
Michel Serres / 3. Die Natur ist nur Einmal da
Francoise Balibar / 4. Generic Mediality
Post-Alphabetical?
Vera Buhlmann / 5. The Nature of Ideas: On Stones
Feelings and the Ecology of Form
Rick Dolphijn / Part II: After Machines / 6. Media Entangled Phenomenology
Mark Hansen / 7. On Reason and Spectral Machines: Robert Brandom and Bounded Posthumanism
David Roden / 8. Circuits of Desire: Cybernetics and the Post-natural According to Lyotard and Stiegler
Ashley Woodward / 9. History as an Ecological Niche: Beyond Benjamin's Nature
Damiano Roberi / 10. Individuation
Cosmogenesis and Technology: Sri Aurobindo and Gilbert Simondon
Debashish Banerji / Part III: After Man / 11. Being without Life: On the Trace of Organic Chauvinism with Derrida and DeLanda
Richard Iveseon / 12. Returning to Text: Deconstructive Paradigms and Posthumanism
Danielle Sands / 13. Primary and Secondary