Philosophy After Nature

Description

The significant changes that have dominated the social and the scientific world over the last thirty years have brought about upheavals and critical reappraisals that have proved quite positive in fostering twenty-first-century thought. Philosophy after Nature, an 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 Starting from the assumption that the binary opposition between the two terms has been replaced by a continuum of the two, this volume explores both the terms of this new interaction and its implications. 1.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 Nature: The Role of Indeterminacy in Spinoza and Bartleby, Christopher Thomas / Index