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Time, Technology and Environment

An Essay on the Philosophy of Nature

Author: Marco Altamirano, Andrea Eckersley, Antonia Pont and Jon Roffe   Series: Plateaus New Directions In Deleuze Studies Eup

Time, Technology and Environment
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A new concept of nature based on Deleuze and Guattari's theories of time

Marco Altamirano critiques the modern concept of nature to chart a new trajectory for the philosophy of nature. He goes on to deploy conceptual resources excavated from Deleuze, Guattari, Foucault and Leroi-Gourhan to show how technology, which bypasses the nature-artifice distinction, is an essential dimension of the philosophy of nature.

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A new concept of nature based on Deleuze and Guattari's theories of time

Marco Altamirano critiques the modern concept of nature to chart a new trajectory for the philosophy of nature. He goes on to deploy conceptual resources excavated from Deleuze, Guattari, Foucault and Leroi-Gourhan to show how technology, which bypasses the nature-artifice distinction, is an essential dimension of the philosophy of nature.

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One of the legacies of modern philosophy is to have separated or bifurcated the human from nature. Marco Altamirano offers a critique of the modern concept of nature in order to chart a new trajectory for the philosophy of nature. By examining the history of the concept of nature, Altamirano shows how a spatial and epistemological concept of nature emerged in Descartes, where a subject confronts an object in space and subsequently wonders about her mode of access to that object. He then argues that a time-based concept of nature is necessary in order to reinstall the subject within its concrete ecology. Deploying conceptual resources from Bergson, Deleuze, Guattari, Foucault, and Leroi-Gourhan (among others), Altamirano shows how the concept of technology harbors an escape route from the spatial and epistemological picture of nature. Ultimately, this book draws the profile of a concept of nature based on time and technology that bypasses the nature-artifice distinction that has mired the philosophy of nature since modern philosophy. Book jacket.

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Marco Altamirano is affiliated with Louisiana State University, New Orleans, LA.

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Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Published
31st August 2017
Pages
184
ISBN
9781474425797

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