TY  - BOOK
AU  - Morton,Timothy
TI  - Dark ecology: for a logic of future coexistence 
T2  - The Wellek Library lectures in critical theory
SN  - 9780231177528
AV  - GF75 .M685 2016
U1  - 304.2 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Nature
KW  - Effect of human beings on
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Human beings
KW  - Effect of environment on
KW  - Human ecology
KW  - Naturalness (Environmental sciences)
KW  - Êtres humains
KW  - Influence sur la nature
KW  - Philosophie
KW  - Influence de l'environnement
KW  - Écologie humaine
KW  - Naturalité (Sciences de l'environnement)
KW  - wilderness
KW  - aat
KW  - 08.46 natural philosophy
KW  - bcl
KW  - Environment and ecology
KW  - eflch
KW  - fast
KW  - Ökologie
KW  - gnd
KW  - Ökologische Philosophie
KW  - nli
KW  - Environment and Ecology
KW  - ukslc
N1  - P.B; Includes bibliographical references and index; Beginning After the End --; The First Thread --; The Second Thread --; The Third Thread --; Ending Before the Beginning
N2  - "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
UR  - http://books.google.com/books?vid=isbn9780231177528
ER  -