9780231177535-0231177534-Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence (The Wellek Library Lectures)

Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence (The Wellek Library Lectures)

ISBN-13: 9780231177535
ISBN-10: 0231177534
Edition: Reprint
Author: Timothy Morton
Publication date: 2018
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Format: Paperback 208 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780231177535
ISBN-10: 0231177534
Edition: Reprint
Author: Timothy Morton
Publication date: 2018
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Format: Paperback 208 pages

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Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence (The Wellek Library Lectures) (ISBN-13: 9780231177535 and ISBN-10: 0231177534), written by authors Timothy Morton, was published by Columbia University Press in 2018. With an overall rating of 4.5 stars, it's a notable title among other Climatology (Earth Sciences, Conservation, Nature & Ecology, Criticism, Philosophy, Ethics & Morality) books. You can easily purchase or rent Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence (The Wellek Library Lectures) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Climatology books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $3.79.

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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.

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