Tag: material ecology
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Paul Stamets, Fantastic Fungi: How Mushrooms Can Heal, Shift Consciousness, and Save the Planet (2019)
Contributions from Michael Pollan, Andrew Weil, Eugenia Bone, and many more expterts make Fantastic Fungi an awe-inspiring visual journey through the exotic, little-known realm of fungi and its amazing potential to positively influence our lives. An all-star team of professional and amateur mycologists, artists, foodies, ecologists, doctors, and explorers joined forces with time-lapse master Louie Schwartzberg…
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The Life of Plants: A Metaphysics of Mixture, Emanuele Coccia (2018)
This is a wonderful book. I highly recommend it for those interested in materialism, nature, plants, posthuman ecology. We barely talk about them and seldom know their names. Philosophy has always overlooked them; even biology considers them as mere decoration on the tree of life. And yet plants give life to the Earth: they produce…
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Posthuman Ecologies: Complexity and Process after Deleuze, Edited by Rosi Braidotti and Simone Bignall (2018)
The devolved and dispersed character of human agency and moral responsibility in the contemporary condition appears linked with the deepening global trauma of ‘inhumanism’ as a paradox of the Anthropocene. Reclaiming human agency and accountability appears crucial for collective resistance to the unprecedented state of environmental and social collapse resulting from the inhumanity of contemporary…
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Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-obscene: Interruptions and Possibilities (2018)
Nice collection forthcoming in Dec 2018. Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-obscene: Interruptions and Possibilities, Erik Swyngedouw & Henrik Ernstson, Eds., Routledge, 2018 This looks like a great paper on the importance of ecological value theory. Excerpt from “Value, Nature & The Vortex Of Accumulation,” Jason Moore and Richard Walker Why bother with value theory?…
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Material Ecology: Neri Oxman’s Generative Design
Oxman’s design takes seriously the ecology and movement of matter. Designer and architect Neri Oxman is leading the search for ways in which digital fabrication technologies can interact with the biological world. Working at the intersection of computational design, additive manufacturing, materials engineering and synthetic biology, her lab is pioneering a new age of symbiosis…
The Philosophy of Movement 