What if Culture was Nature all Along

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8094631
AutoresKirby (0000-0001-9496-8685, autor de correspondencia), Vicki Kirby
Año2017
Fecha de publicación2017-02-21
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaWhat if Culture was Nature all Along? (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialEdinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1515/9781474419307
OpenAlexW4214603729
Open LibraryOL51666817M
ISBN9781474419307
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas30

Gives you the tools to navigate towards a non-reductionist naturalism where matter is chameleon and agential New materialisms argue for a more science friendly humanities, ventilating questions about methodology and subject matter and the importance of the non-human. However, these new sites of attention – climate, biology, affect, geology, animals and objects – tend to leverage their difference against language and the discursive. Similarly, questions about ontology have come to eclipse, and even eschew, those of epistemology. While this collection of essays is in kinship with this radical shake-up of how and what we study, the aim is to re-navigate what constitutes materiality. These efforts are encapsulated by a rewriting of the Derridean axiom, ‘there is no outside text’ as ‘there is no outside nature.’ What if nature has always been literate, numerate, social? And what happens to ‘the human’ if its exceptional identity and status is conceded quantum, non-local and ecological implication

Aesthetics · Epistemology · Materialism · Materiality (auditing · Naturalism · Posthumanism · Reductionism · Sociology · Subject matter · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Philosophy · Social sciences