On the verge of a planetary civilization : a philosophy of by Sam Mickey

By Sam Mickey

On the Verge of a Planetary Civilization offers a philosophical contribution to crucial ecology—an rising method of the sector that crosses disciplinary obstacles of the arts and sciences.

In this unique ebook, Sam Mickey argues for the transdisciplinary importance of philosophical innovations that facilitate understandings of and responses to the limits fascinated about ecological concerns. Mickey demonstrates how a lot the provocative French thinker Gilles Deleuze contributes to the improvement of such techniques, situating his paintings in discussion with that of his colleagues Felix Guattari and Jacques Derrida, and with theorists who're adapting his innovations in modern contexts resembling Isabelle Stengers, Catherine Keller, and the speculative realist circulation of object-oriented ontology.

The publication specializes in the overlapping existential, social and environmental features of the ecological difficulties pervading our more and more interconnected planet. It explores the bounds between

  • self and different,
  • humans and nonhumans,
  • sciences and arts,
  • monism and pluralism,
  • sacred and secular,
  • fact and fiction,
  • the starting and finish of the realm, and lots more and plenty more.

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A beginning is not a stable origin that lies back in a position of control to organize rigid orders and borders, and an ending is not a closure or cataclysmic apocalypse that determines, finally, once and for all, the values of a life, an ecosystem, a person, or a civilization. Beginnings and endings are like the edge effects produced by ecotones— the transitional boundary zones where ecosystems make contact and create tension between one another. 128 To negotiate the boundaries of beginnings and endings, one must stay in the middle of their becomings, staying on edge, affirming the troublesome tensions of transitions.

Indeed, Latour uses both of those terms to describe his philosophy. Latour’s “constructivism” or “compositionism” attends to the process of composition for all actors and does not assimilate the world into a social/natural or subject/object dualism. 121 His “realism” attends to the reality not of objective facts uncontaminated by subjectivity but to the reality of actors; that is, the reality of all humans and nonhumans as active participants or agents in the ongoing process of composition. 122 Latour’s orientation to the reality of actors is analogous to the “agential realism” proposed by the physicist and feminist philosopher Karen Barad, who argues that the world is not made up of interacting separate individuals that are either active subjects or passive objects, but is made up of “intra-acting” agencies, where “intra-action” refers to “the mutual constitution of entangled agencies”.

That shared commitment is taken up by Sean Esbjörn-Hargens and Michael Zimmerman in their monumental book applying Wilber’s In- 24 Chapter 1 tegral framework to ecology, Integral Ecology: Uniting Multiple Perspectives on the Natural World. Esbjörn-Hargens and Zimmerman draw on the works of Guattari, Boff, Berry, and many others in an effort to use the AQAL model to map the vast multiplicity of ecological perspectives. Their book is the most systematic presentation of an integral approach to ecology thus far.

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