Timothy Morton argues that ecological awareness in the present Anthropocene era takes the form of a strange loop or Mobius strip, twisted to have only one side. Deckard travels this oedipal path in Blade Runner (1982) when he learns that he might be the enemy he has been ordered to pursue. Ecological awareness takes this shape because ecological phenomena have a loop form that is also fundamental to the structure of how things are. The logistics of agricultural society resulted in global warming and hardwired dangerous ...
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Timothy Morton argues that ecological awareness in the present Anthropocene era takes the form of a strange loop or Mobius strip, twisted to have only one side. Deckard travels this oedipal path in Blade Runner (1982) when he learns that he might be the enemy he has been ordered to pursue. Ecological awareness takes this shape because ecological phenomena have a loop form that is also fundamental to the structure of how things are. The logistics of agricultural society resulted in global warming and hardwired dangerous ideas about life-forms into the human mind. Dark ecology puts us in an uncanny position of radical self-knowledge, illuminating our place in the biosphere and our belonging to a species in a sense that is far less obvious than we like to think. Morton explores the logical foundations of the ecological crisis, which is suffused with the melancholy and negativity of coexistence yet evolving, as we explore its loop form, into something playful, anarchic, and comedic. His work is a skilled fusion of humanities and scientific scholarship, incorporating the theories and findings of philosophy, anthropology, literature, ecology, biology, and physics. Morton hopes to reestablish our ties to nonhuman beings and to help us rediscover the playfulness and joy that can brighten the dark, strange loop we traverse.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 8x5x1; Dark Ecology broadens ecocritical scholarship by shifting the focus from the Anthropocene to agrilogistics, Morton's designation for the past 12, 000 years. Agrilogistics denotes both the period beginning with Mesopotamia and agriculture in the Fertile Crescent and the logic produced by this shift from nomadic to place-based living. Morton refutes short-term explanations of how and why humans caused the Anthropocene, claiming that they are merely symptomatic of a deeper, older, set of assumptions that are based on a faulty ontology. According to Morton, the "logistics" behind this agricultural venture are what eventually determined and required the invention of the steam engine. It is agrilogistics, not merely capitalism, that is "the smoking gun behind the smoking chimneys responsible for the Sixth Mass Extinction Event" (43). Morton seeks to replace the anthropocentric logic of the past 12, 000 years with ecognosis, a type of knowing akin to ecological awareness.
