Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence

The Wellek Library Lectures

De: Timothy B. Morton

Narrado por: Marlin May

Timothy Morton argues that ecological awareness in the present Anthropocene era takes the form of a strange loop or Möbius strip, twisted to have only one side. Deckard travels this oedipal path in Blade Runner when he learns that he might be the enemy he has been ordered to pursue. Ecological awareness takes this shape because ecological phenomena have a loop form that is also fundamental to the structure of how things are.

The logistics of agricultural society resulted in global warming and hardwired dangerous ideas about life-forms into the human mind. Dark ecology puts us in an uncanny position of radical self-knowledge, illuminating our place in the biosphere and our belonging to a species in a sense that is far less obvious than we like to think. Morton explores the logical foundations of the ecological crisis, which is suffused with the melancholy and negativity of coexistence yet evolving, as we explore its loop form, into something playful, anarchic, and comedic. His work is a skilled fusion of humanities and scientific scholarship, incorporating the theories and findings of philosophy, anthropology, literature, ecology, biology, and physics. Morton hopes to reestablish our ties to nonhuman beings and to help us rediscover the playfulness and joy that can brighten the dark, strange loop we traverse.

The book is published by Columbia University Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks.

"A brave, brilliant interrogation of the presumptions that have driven our approach to the ecological and environmental challenges of our era." (Imre Szeman, University of Alberta)

"A playful, poetic parsing of our era's environmental crisis." (Rice Magazine)

"A radical vision of what ecological thought can be." (Los Angeles Review of Books)

©2016 Columbia University Press (P)2022 Redwood Audiobooks

Heads up this is a philosophy book

Besides a couple of interesting points this book is overall a mess. Doubtful that it was edited because it doesn’t seem to be organized at all. A repetitive rambling that gives the energy of a man on amphetamines. That’s not to say there aren’t good points but it’s mostly just information that we all already know and nothing valuable is being said. Concerned that the author might be experiencing some level of dementia because of the repetitiveness without any emphasis or point. Altogether it was an exhausting listen. I wouldn’t recommend to anyone.