Introduction to General Ecology: The Ecologization of Thinking
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General Ecology: The New Ecological Paradigm. ed. / Erich Hörl; James Burton. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. p. 1 – 75 (Theory).
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T1 - Introduction to General Ecology
T2 - The Ecologization of Thinking
AU - Hörl, Erich Heinrich
A2 - Schott, Nils F.
A2 - Hörl, Erich
A2 - Burton, James
PY - 2017/5
Y1 - 2017/5
N2 - The ecologization of thinkingErichHörlNils F. SchottTranslated byJEAN-LUC NANCYAn ecology properly understood can be nothing other than a technology. We are witnessing the breakthrough of a new historical semantics: the breakthrough of ecology. There are thousands of ecologies today: ecologies of sensation, perception, cognition, desire, attention, power, values, information, participation, media, the mind, relations, practices, behavior, belonging, the social, the political — to name only a selection of possible examples. There seems to be hardly any area that cannot be considered the object of an ecology and thus open to an ecological reformulation. This proliferation of the ecological is accompanied by a shift in the meaning of “ecology. ” The concept is increasingly denaturalized. Whereas previously it was politically-semantically charged with nature, it now practically calls for an “ecology without nature. ” Thus it not only abandons any reference to nature, but even occupies fields that are definitively unnatural. At the same...
AB - The ecologization of thinkingErichHörlNils F. SchottTranslated byJEAN-LUC NANCYAn ecology properly understood can be nothing other than a technology. We are witnessing the breakthrough of a new historical semantics: the breakthrough of ecology. There are thousands of ecologies today: ecologies of sensation, perception, cognition, desire, attention, power, values, information, participation, media, the mind, relations, practices, behavior, belonging, the social, the political — to name only a selection of possible examples. There seems to be hardly any area that cannot be considered the object of an ecology and thus open to an ecological reformulation. This proliferation of the ecological is accompanied by a shift in the meaning of “ecology. ” The concept is increasingly denaturalized. Whereas previously it was politically-semantically charged with nature, it now practically calls for an “ecology without nature. ” Thus it not only abandons any reference to nature, but even occupies fields that are definitively unnatural. At the same...
KW - Media and communication studies
KW - Philosophy
UR - http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/general-ecology-9781350014695/
UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/63de556f-ae27-3497-a6cb-b5aacdc1450d/
U2 - 10.5040/9781350014725.ch-001
DO - 10.5040/9781350014725.ch-001
M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies
SN - 978-1-350-01470-1
SN - 978-1-350-01469-5
T3 - Theory
SP - 1
EP - 75
BT - General Ecology
PB - Bloomsbury Academic
CY - London
ER -