General Ecology: The New Ecological Paradigm

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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. FC......Page 1 Half title......Page 2 Also Available in the Theory Series......Page 3 Title......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 List of Contributors......Page 8 Acknowledgments......Page 13 Series Preface......Page 15 1 Introduction to general ecology: The ecologization of thinking Erich Hörl......Page 18 2 Computational logic and ecological rationality Luciana Parisi......Page 92 3 Elements for an ecology of separation: Beyond ecological constructivism Frédéric Neyrat......Page 118 4 General ecology, economy, and organology Bernard Stiegler......Page 146 5 The modern invention of nature Didier Debaise......Page 168 6 Deep times and media mines: A descent into ecological materiality of technology Jussi Parikka......Page 186 7 Planetary immunity: Biopolitics, Gaia theory, the holobiont, and the systems counterculture Bruce Clarke......Page 210 8 Ecologizing biopolitics, or, What is the “bio-” of bioart? Cary Wolfe......Page 234 9 Ecologies of communion, contagion, &c, especially Bataille David Wills......Page 252 10 Metafiction and general ecology: Making worlds with worlds James Burton......Page 270 11 An ecology of differences: Communication, the Web, and the question of borders Elena Esposito......Page 302 12 Specters of ecology Timothy Morton......Page 320 13 Devastation Matthew Fuller and Olga Goriunova......Page 340 14 Virtual ecology and the question of value Brian Massumi......Page 362 Index......Page 392