I’ve been eagerly waiting for Volume 1 of the new journal Thinking Nature to come out, and today it did just that! The journal is edited by Timothy Morton and Ben Woodard. Ben provides a note to the reader in lieu of an editorial or introduction here:
I hope that readers will find that the essays address the larger problem of trying to think nature in philosophical and ecological means and display the need for further inquiry into the conceptual monstrousness of nature.
As of tonight I will once again be embedded deep in the rocky mountains for the next 4 days, but reading these essays is a priority when I return home. Enjoy:
Thinking Nature - Volume 1
Essays/1/ – What did the Early Heidegger Think about Nature? – Paul Ennis
/2/ – Being and Counting: Speculative Materialism and the Threshold of the Given – David Lindsay
/3/ – Unthinking Nature: Transcendental Realism, Neo-Vitalism and the Metaphysical Unconscious in Outline – Michael Austin
/4/ – Philosophies of Nature in the Differentials of Iain Hamilton Grant and Ray Brassier – Himanshu Damle
/5/ – Ecological Necessity – Tom Sparrow
/6/ – Six Myths of Interdisciplinarity – Ted Toadvine
/7/ – Some Notes Towards a Philosophy of Non-Life – Timothy Morton
/8/ – Towards a Philosophy of (Dejected) Nature – Ben Woodard
/9/ – Man and Nature – Ross Wolfe
Reviews
/10/ – Review of Thinking with Whitehead by Isabelle Stengers – Leon Niemoczynski
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6 comments:
Wow, thanks for linking to this. I had stopped checking up on the journal's site for updates weeks ago. So this is how I first found out it was finally out there!
enjoy yer retreat, tom's article touches on, pardon the pun, some of the limits of M-Ponty that came up here a while back.
Looks to be a good turn-out in readership for Thinking Nature. Just a request: would it be possible to fix the typo in my last name? (No 'n' at the end.)
Thanks!
Leon / AFTER NATURE
Not to dig up old feuds that ought to have been buried by now, but have you been following Levi's posts on commodity fetishism over at Larval Subjects, trying to work out an OOO-approach to the subject? You might find it of some interest. I naturally am suspicious of any theory that claims that objects exist external to their relations, especially if it is trying to incorporate a theory about the relationship between objects and the relationship between persons. Bryant has suddenly warmed to Adorno, after heaping scorn upon him for months. But Adorno's theories do not deserve to be put to such misuse. Anyway, I've written a reply to his post on commodities over on my blog.
http://www.npr.org/2011/06/20/137151021/you-think-thats-bad-fiction-of-the-unfamiliar
@Ross - glad to be of some assistance.
@Dirk - thanks.
@Leon - done and done. Thanks for stoppingby Leon, I am enjoying the new blog greatly.
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