General Ecology

The New Ecological Paradigm

Erich Hörl

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9781350014695
• eBook ISBN:
  9781350014718
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Art Theory & Criticism

Ecology has become one of the most urgent and lively fields in both the humanities and sciences. In a dramatic widening of scope beyond its original concern with the coexistence of living organisms within a natural environment, it is now recognized that there are ecologies of mind, information, sensation, perception, power, participation, media, behavior, belonging, values, the social, the political… a thousand ecologies. This proliferation is not simply a metaphorical extension of the figurative potential of natural ecology: rather, it reflects the thoroughgoing imbrication of natural and technological elements in the constitution of the contemporary environments we inhabit, the rise of a cybernetic natural state, with its corresponding mode of power. Hence this ecology of ecologies initiates and demands that we go beyond the specificity of any particular ecology: a general thinking of ecology which may also constitute an ecological transformation of thought itself is required.

In this ambitious and radical new volume of writings, some of the most exciting contemporary thinkers in the field take on the task of revealing and theorizing the extent of the ecologization of existence as the effect of our contemporary sociotechnological condition: together, they bring out the complexity and urgency of the challenge of ecological thought-one we cannot avoid if we want to ask and indeed have a chance of affecting what forms of life, agency, modes of existence, human or otherwise, will participate-and how-in this planet's future.

Table of contents

• Also Available in the Theory Series
• Title
• Contents 
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Series Preface
• 1 Introduction to general ecology: The ecologization of thinking Erich Hörl
• 2 Computational logic and ecological rationality Luciana Parisi
• 3 Elements for an ecology of separation: Beyond ecological constructivism Frédéric Neyrat
• 4 General ecology, economy, and organology Bernard Stiegler
• 5 The modern invention of nature Didier Debaise
• 6 Deep times and media mines: A descent into ecological materiality of technology Jussi Parikka
• 7 Planetary immunity: Biopolitics, Gaia theory, the holobiont, and the systems counterculture Bruce Clarke
• 8 Ecologizing biopolitics, or, What is the “bio-” of bioart? Cary Wolfe
• 9 Ecologies of communion, contagion, &c, especially Bataille David Wills
• 10 Metafiction and general ecology: Making worlds with worlds James Burton
• 11 An ecology of differences: Communication, the Web, and the question of borders Elena Esposito
• 12 Specters of ecology Timothy Morton
• 13 Devastation Matthew Fuller and Olga Goriunova
• 14 Virtual ecology and the question of value Brian Massumi
• Index
• Copyright