Climate Machines, Fascist Drives, and Truth Contributor(s): Connolly, William E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1478005890 ISBN-13: 9781478005896 Publisher: Duke University Press OUR PRICE: $85.45 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Political Science | History & Theory - General - Philosophy | Political - Religion |
Dewey: 304.28 |
LCCN: 2019008725 |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.2" W x 9.3" (0.80 lbs) 136 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In this new installation of his work, William E. Connolly examines entanglements between volatile earth processes and emerging cultural practices, highlighting relays among extractive capitalism, self-amplifying climate processes, migrations, democratic aspirations, and fascist dangers. In three interwoven essays, Connolly takes up thinkers in the "minor tradition" of European thought who, unlike Cartesians and Kantians, cross divisions between nature and culture. He first offers readings of Sophocles and Mary Shelley, asking whether close attention to the Anthropocene could perhaps have arrived earlier had subsequent humanists absorbed their lessons. He then joins Deleuze and Guattari's notion of an abstract machine with contemporary earth sciences, doing so to compare the Antique Little Ice Age of the late Roman empire to contemporary relays between extractive capitalism and accelerating climate processes. The final essay stages a dramatic dialogue between Alfred North Whitehead and Michel Foucault about the pursuit of truth during a time of planetary turbulence. With Climate Machines Fascist Drives, and Truth, Connolly forges incisive interventions into key issues of our time. |