Rethinking the subject, reimagining worlds
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8091028 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susan Ruddick (University of Toronto, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 119-139 |
| Publication date | 2017-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Dialogues in Human Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2043-8206 • E-ISSN: 2043-8214 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/2043820617717847 |
| OpenAlex | W2751873692 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 51 |
| References cited | 48 |
The ecological crisis is also an ontological crisis. It raises questions about our ethical response-ability to this world, calling for a rethinking of the human–nature divide. Vitalist approaches and scholarship on the affective turn have shifted our understanding of our relations to nonhuman others, but they remain constrained: limited to proximate attachments; ambivalent or agnostic in the face of conflict; unable to move beyond the celebration of a lively earth. At issue I feel is a methodological individualism that haunts these offerings when confronted with questions of the ethical composition of a larger whole. Building upon Sharp’s invitation to explore ‘our continuity with nonhuman agencies’, I investigate the ethical basis for a reimagined subject in a series of becomings: the becoming nature of God, becoming animal of man, and becoming sign of earth. Drawing on the writings of Spinoza, Deleuze and Guattari, and Peirce, I rework this familiar terrain on two counts. First, I examine how the content of each becoming invokes distinct relational dynamics and complicates the ‘problem of composition’. Second, I draw on Spinoza’s differentiated concept of power (as potentia and potestas) and the concept of the composite individual to suggest an alternative way of framing our collaborations with the nonhuman world
Ambivalence · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Framing (construction · Political science · Scholarship · Sign (mathematics · Sociology · Subject (documents · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Law · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology · Social Psychology
Geographies of value and valuation
Child Ecologies in a Microbial World
Weird monsters and monstrous media
Learning to Live with Climate Change
Composting Storytelling
Insect-Thinking as Resistance to Education’s Human Exceptionalism
Towards a Process Epistemology for the Analysis of Social-Ecological Systems
Theorizing Style (In Three Sketches)
Feather-Work
Arguing With Jakob von Uexküll’s Umwelten
In Pursuit of Necessary Joys
Incongruous killing
Anthropocene semiosis
Spinoza and the possibilities for radical climate ethics
What is ‘affective infrastructure’
Matter, affect, life
From local wisdom to global ethics
Imagining an ecological right to the city in Toronto through drama-based research
Earthly tourism and travel’s contribution to a planetary genre de vie
Just because they aren't human doesn't mean they aren't alive”
Bearing worlds
Animating the urban
Repositioning the (Is)land
Vegetative States
Between binary- and mono-ontologies
On being affected
The understated turn
CoPSE
Apprehending felt futures in Broome, Australia
Responsibility before the World
Practising post‐humanism in geographical research
Geography, materialism, and the neo-vitalist turn
From ‘world’ to ‘earth
Cultivated, feral, wild
Geography and ethics I
Biodesign and the Allure of “Grow-made” Textiles
Deleuze, subjectivity and nonhuman becomings in the Anthropocene
Listening to plants
Introduction
To cut or not to cut – emotions and forest conflicts in digital media
Critical tourism studies
Vitalist temptations
Colonising geology
On the dangers of an Anthropocene epoch
Postqualitative geographies
From globalisation to the planetary
Gorilla habituation and the role of animal agency in conservation and tourism development at Bwindi, South Western Uganda
On coming into animal presence with photovoice
On the technological unconscious
Sustainability and impossible worlds
Writing subjectivity without subjecthood
Cognitive Function in General
Gilles Deleuze
How Forests Think
Anthropogenic transformation of the biomes, 1700 to 2000
Animal Spaces, Beastly Places
Towards a New Earth and a New Humanity
Multispecies Knots of Ethical Time
Affective processes without a subject
Arts of Inclusion, or, How to Love a Mushroom
The Production of Subjectivity
Unnatural Alliances
Spinoza and the Politics of Renaturalization
Understanding Deleuze
Autopoiesis and Cognition
No plant no breath
On Antonio Negri's Insurgencies
Feeling the signs
Introduction
Environmental issues
The Fictions of Autonomous Invention
The Matter of Nature
Neoliberalizing Nature? Market Environmentalism in Water Supply in England and Wales
The affective labor of growing forests and the becoming of environmental subjects
The residual humanism of hybridity
Anti-Oedipus
Mind and nature
A thousand plateaus
The Force of Things
Spinoza and ecology
Living cities
Burning Cities
Comparing Invasive Networks
Urban Wild Things
Herding Memories of Humans and Animals
Ladies and Gentlemen, Behold the Enemy
Phytosemiotics
Towards a Dialectics of the Positive
Imitating the Affects of Beasts
Cinema I
Materialist returns
The Politics of Affect
| Unique citing works | 51 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,67 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 51 |