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Collapse: Philosophical Research and Development Volume VI: Geo/Philosophy

✍ Scribed by Robin Mackay (editor)

Publisher
Urbanomic
Year
2010
Tongue
English
Leaves
538
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

Is there an enduring bond between philosophical thought and the earth, or is philosophy’s task to escape the planetary horizon? And what is the connection between the empirical earth, the contingent material support of human thinking, and the abstract β€˜world’ that is the condition for a β€˜whole’ of thought?

Real and imaginary geographies and cartographies have played a dual role in philosophy, serving both as governing metaphor and as ultimate grounding for philosophical thought; but urgent contemporary concerns introduce new problems for geophilosophy: planetary political, technological, military, and financial mutations have scrambled territorial formations, and scientific predictions now present us with the apocalyptic scenario of a planet without human thought.

Collapse VI brings together philosophers, theorists, eco-critics, leading scientific experts in climate change, and artists whose work interrogates the link between philosophical thought, geography and cartography, in order to create a portrait of the present state of β€˜planetary thought’.

✦ Table of Contents

Editorial Introduction by Robin Mackay
Becoming Spice by Nicola Masciandaro
Introduction to Schelling’s 'On the World Soul' by Iain Hamilton Grant
On the World Soul (Extract) by F. W. J. Schelling
New Ecologies (Interview) by Greg McInerny, Drew Purves, Rich Williams and Stephen Emmott
Thinking Ecology by Timothy Morton
How Many Slugs Maketh the Man? by FIELDCLUB
Fossils of Time Future by Owen Hatherley
Political Plastic (Interview) by Eyal Weizman
A Given Time/A Given Place by Angela Detanico and Rafael Lain
Introduction to SIMADology by Manabrata Guha
Undercover Softness by Reza Negarestani
Philosophers’ Islands by Robin Mackay
The Islanders by Charles Avery
Theory is Waiting by Gilles Grelet
Endless Dreams and Water Between by RenΓ©e Green

✦ Subjects

cartography,chemistry,ecology,geography,geophilosophy,territory,ungrounding,philosophy,speculative materialism,realism

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