General ecology : the new ecological paradigm / edited by Erich Hörl.
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TextPublisher: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017Description: 368 pagesContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781350014695 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Ecology | Environment and ecology | Environment and EcologyDDC classification: 577 Summary: Ecology has become one of the most urgent and lively fields in both the humanities and sciences. In a dramatic widening of scope beyond its original concern with the coexistence of living organisms within a natural environment, it is now recognised that there are ecologies of mind, information, sensation, perception, power, participation, media, behaviour, belonging, values, the social, the political. a thousand ecologies. This proliferation is not simply a metaphorical extension of the figurative potential of natural ecology: rather, it reflects the thoroughgoing imbrication of natural and technological elements in the constitution of the contemporary environments we inhabit, the rise of a cybernetic natural state, with its corresponding mode of power.
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Ecology has become one of the most urgent and lively fields in both the humanities and sciences. In a dramatic widening of scope beyond its original concern with the coexistence of living organisms within a natural environment, it is now recognised that there are ecologies of mind, information, sensation, perception, power, participation, media, behaviour, belonging, values, the social, the political. a thousand ecologies. This proliferation is not simply a metaphorical extension of the figurative potential of natural ecology: rather, it reflects the thoroughgoing imbrication of natural and technological elements in the constitution of the contemporary environments we inhabit, the rise of a cybernetic natural state, with its corresponding mode of power.
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