Arianne Conty
Biographic Data
| ID | 171397 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arianne Conty |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arianne |
| FAMILY NAME | Conty |
| SIGNATURE | CONTY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University of Sharjah |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8751-0852 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Reanimating Animism
This interview seeks to elucidate Viveiros de Castro’s understanding of animism as an alternative to both deterministic utilitarianism and modern universals that disregard non-Western ontologies. In his answers to my questions, he clarifies the ‘ontological turn’ and the animistic ontology that is his field of expertise, and brings to light the ways this animist ontology develops a multinatural anthropomorphism instead of a multicultural anthropo…
Will to evil instead of will to power
Fudo
Homoousios or Homoiosis
This article will elucidate the philosophy of the image that developed in the wake of the Iconoclastic Controversy in the Eastern Christian Empire in the ninth Century. Iconophilia was finally reinstated after a wave of iconoclasm swept across the Empire. The controversy coincides with dramatic changes within the Byzantine empire, making it difficult to establish consensus amongst scholars regarding its possible causes. After discussing several o…
Nomad Thought
This article compares the mysticism of 4th-century Church Father Gregory of Nyssa to the nomadology of 20th century philosophers Deleuze and Guattari. In their book A Thousand Plateaus, Deleuze and Guattari returned to the figure of the nomad in order to free multiplicities from the "despotic unity" of modern Enlightenment thought. Though Deleuze and Guattari compare this nomadology to spiritual journeys, they claim that their nomad, unlike the m…
Animism in the Anthropocene
Following upon Bruno Latour's famous injunction that 'we have never been modern', Graham Harvey has recently added that perhaps 'we have always been animists.' With the massive ecosystem destruction that is underway in the Anthropocene, this realization could represent a necessary paradigm shift to address anthropogenic climate change. If the expropriation and destruction intrinsic to the modern division between a world of cultural values attribu…
Religion in the Age of the Anthropocene
Though responses to the Anthropocene have largely come from the natural and social sciences, religious responses to the Anthropocene have also been gaining momentum and many scholars have been calling for a religious response to complement scientific responses to climate change. Yet because Genesis 1:28 does indeed tell human beings to ‘subdue the earth’ monotheistic religions have often been understood as complicit in the human exceptionalism th…
The Politics of Nature
In order to explore some of the divergences within new materialism and elucidate their relationship to actor-network theory, this article will develop Latour’s theory of agency and then compare it to those new materialists who uphold a ‘flat ontology’ that includes technological tools (Jane Bennett) and those who uphold an animate/inanimate distinction (Tim Ingold and Eduardo Kohn). In light of the ecological crisis called the Anthropocene, the d…
Profane Illuminations
Focusing upon the continuity between ancient Rome and modern Western democracy, this article will set out to show that the religiosity at work in liberal democracy has always been present, notwithstanding the Church/State divide and the secularization of modern Western cultures. Thus the ‘return' to religion that has marked the twenty-first century is not a return at all, but rather a sign that the universalizing Protestantism understood here as …
Bending Heaven Down to Earth
This article sets out to rehabilitate the medieval icon as a visual paradigm, seeing it not as a primitive attempt at painterly perspective and the verisimilitude it sought to achieve, but as a sophisticated symbolic system with an entirely different intention, one that will be shown to share the apophatic nature of certain mystical texts. The “inverse perspective” that typifies the icon creates the impression of a figure actively gazing out of t…
Techno-phenomenology
This article will set out to elucidate the ways in which the philosophies of technology of Martin Heidegger and Bruno Latour seek to explain how the phenomenal world of nature, objects and tools come to presence as events through their interrelations with each other and with us. Both thinkers seek to overcome a subject/object divide that they both understand as characterising modernity in order to reveal a greater interdependence between nature a…
Absolute Art
Nicolas of Cusa’s fifteenth-century text De Visione Dei represents his most far-reaching illustration of communication between finite “quantum” vision and the infinite spherical vision of God. Written to accompany a visual experiment, the text instructs the monks of Tegernsee to circumambulate an all-seeing icon of God. Developing the concept of infinite space that had found a geometrical representation in the vanishing point, Cusa places it with…
The Politics of Nature
In order to explore some of the divergences within new materialism and elucidate their relationship to actor-network theory, this article will develop Latour’s theory of agency and then compare it to those new materialists who uphold a ‘flat ontology’ that includes technological tools (Jane Bennett) and those who uphold an animate/inanimate distinction (Tim Ingold and Eduardo Kohn). In light of the ecological crisis called the Anthropocene, the d…
Animism in the Anthropocene
Following upon Bruno Latour's famous injunction that 'we have never been modern', Graham Harvey has recently added that perhaps 'we have always been animists.' With the massive ecosystem destruction that is underway in the Anthropocene, this realization could represent a necessary paradigm shift to address anthropogenic climate change. If the expropriation and destruction intrinsic to the modern division between a world of cultural values attribu…
Techno-phenomenology
This article will set out to elucidate the ways in which the philosophies of technology of Martin Heidegger and Bruno Latour seek to explain how the phenomenal world of nature, objects and tools come to presence as events through their interrelations with each other and with us. Both thinkers seek to overcome a subject/object divide that they both understand as characterising modernity in order to reveal a greater interdependence between nature a…
Absolute Art
Nicolas of Cusa’s fifteenth-century text De Visione Dei represents his most far-reaching illustration of communication between finite “quantum” vision and the infinite spherical vision of God. Written to accompany a visual experiment, the text instructs the monks of Tegernsee to circumambulate an all-seeing icon of God. Developing the concept of infinite space that had found a geometrical representation in the vanishing point, Cusa places it with…
Absolute Art
Nicolas of Cusa’s fifteenth-century text De Visione Dei represents his most far-reaching illustration of communication between finite “quantum” vision and the infinite spherical vision of God. Written to accompany a visual experiment, the text instructs the monks of Tegernsee to circumambulate an all-seeing icon of God. Developing the concept of infinite space that had found a geometrical representation in the vanishing point, Cusa places it with…
Techno-phenomenology
This article will set out to elucidate the ways in which the philosophies of technology of Martin Heidegger and Bruno Latour seek to explain how the phenomenal world of nature, objects and tools come to presence as events through their interrelations with each other and with us. Both thinkers seek to overcome a subject/object divide that they both understand as characterising modernity in order to reveal a greater interdependence between nature a…
Profane Illuminations
Focusing upon the continuity between ancient Rome and modern Western democracy, this article will set out to show that the religiosity at work in liberal democracy has always been present, notwithstanding the Church/State divide and the secularization of modern Western cultures. Thus the ‘return' to religion that has marked the twenty-first century is not a return at all, but rather a sign that the universalizing Protestantism understood here as …
Bending Heaven Down to Earth
This article sets out to rehabilitate the medieval icon as a visual paradigm, seeing it not as a primitive attempt at painterly perspective and the verisimilitude it sought to achieve, but as a sophisticated symbolic system with an entirely different intention, one that will be shown to share the apophatic nature of certain mystical texts. The “inverse perspective” that typifies the icon creates the impression of a figure actively gazing out of t…
The Politics of Nature
In order to explore some of the divergences within new materialism and elucidate their relationship to actor-network theory, this article will develop Latour’s theory of agency and then compare it to those new materialists who uphold a ‘flat ontology’ that includes technological tools (Jane Bennett) and those who uphold an animate/inanimate distinction (Tim Ingold and Eduardo Kohn). In light of the ecological crisis called the Anthropocene, the d…
Religion in the Age of the Anthropocene
Though responses to the Anthropocene have largely come from the natural and social sciences, religious responses to the Anthropocene have also been gaining momentum and many scholars have been calling for a religious response to complement scientific responses to climate change. Yet because Genesis 1:28 does indeed tell human beings to ‘subdue the earth’ monotheistic religions have often been understood as complicit in the human exceptionalism th…
Nomad Thought
This article compares the mysticism of 4th-century Church Father Gregory of Nyssa to the nomadology of 20th century philosophers Deleuze and Guattari. In their book A Thousand Plateaus, Deleuze and Guattari returned to the figure of the nomad in order to free multiplicities from the "despotic unity" of modern Enlightenment thought. Though Deleuze and Guattari compare this nomadology to spiritual journeys, they claim that their nomad, unlike the m…
Animism in the Anthropocene
Following upon Bruno Latour's famous injunction that 'we have never been modern', Graham Harvey has recently added that perhaps 'we have always been animists.' With the massive ecosystem destruction that is underway in the Anthropocene, this realization could represent a necessary paradigm shift to address anthropogenic climate change. If the expropriation and destruction intrinsic to the modern division between a world of cultural values attribu…
Homoousios or Homoiosis
This article will elucidate the philosophy of the image that developed in the wake of the Iconoclastic Controversy in the Eastern Christian Empire in the ninth Century. Iconophilia was finally reinstated after a wave of iconoclasm swept across the Empire. The controversy coincides with dramatic changes within the Byzantine empire, making it difficult to establish consensus amongst scholars regarding its possible causes. After discussing several o…
Fudo
Reanimating Animism
This interview seeks to elucidate Viveiros de Castro’s understanding of animism as an alternative to both deterministic utilitarianism and modern universals that disregard non-Western ontologies. In his answers to my questions, he clarifies the ‘ontological turn’ and the animistic ontology that is his field of expertise, and brings to light the ways this animist ontology develops a multinatural anthropomorphism instead of a multicultural anthropo…
Will to evil instead of will to power
Philosophy (11 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Anthropocene (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Environmental ethics (4 works) · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics (4 works) · Animism (3 works)