Deleuze/Guattari & EcologyBernd Herzogenrath "What does "ecology" mean if this concept cannot be grounded anymore in an essentialist and clear-cut separation of nature and culture, nature and man, human and non-human, as Deleuze and Guattari - in both their individual and collective works - suggest? "[M]an and nature are not like two opposite terms confronting each other - not even in the sense of bipolar opposites within a relationship of causation, ideation, or expression (cause and effect, subject and object, etc); rather they are one and the same essential reality, the producer-product" (Anti-Oedipus 4-5)." "Deleuze/Guattari's "generalized ecology" turns Ecology into a complex transdisciplinary project linking philosophy, art, sociology, literature, politics, music, history, the hard and soft sciences. Deleuze/Guattari offer a perspective on ecology as a comprehensive natural ontology of complex material systems, without falling into the trap of the Cartesian dualism of "nature" and "culture" that is still operative in much of the mainstream of ecological/ecocritical approaches."--BOOK JACKET. |
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Ecology and Realist Ontology | 23 |
A Thousand Ecologies | 42 |
Radical Constructivism | 57 |
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aesthetic affects animals Anti-Oedipus argues artistic assemblages autopoiesis autopoietic autopoietic systems become bionic body Body without Organs calls chaos Chaosmosis complex components concept constitute consumption creative culture cybernetics de-differentiation deep ecology defined Deleuze and Guattari Deleuze's Deleuze|Guattari Deleuzian deterritorialization differential domain dynamics earth ecosophy ecosystems eigenorganizations emerge entities entropy environment environmental essay ethics Félix Guattari field flows forces function Gilles Deleuze haecceities human individual infinite information sensing intensive interactions John Luther Adams landscape logic London machines material matter Maturana medium milieus molecular multiplicity nature nonhuman Nonsite notion object ontology operations organisms perception philosophy physical plane of immanence political processes production radical reference relations ritournelle Robert Smithson second-order cybernetics sensation sensory singular Site-Nonsite Smithson social space species Spiral Jetty structural couplings territory theory things Thoreau Thousand Plateaus Three Ecologies tion Trans transformation vampyroteuthis Varela vector virtual York