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SUMMARY:The Ecological Thought - Timothy Morton\, UC-Davis
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CONTACT:Benjamin Morris
DESCRIPTION:The Cultures of Climate Change at CRASSH announces its second 
 event of Easter Term\, a lecture by Timothy Morton entitled "The Ecologica
 l Thought." This lecture will be followed by discussion and a wine recepti
 on.\n\nAbstract:\nF.R. Leavis admired poets for "concrete enactment"--for 
 reproducing or mimicking their content at the level of form. What does an 
 understanding of enactment do for contemporary theories of cognition\, whi
 ch outline an "enactive" view of the interface between consciousness and e
 nvironment? In this talk\, I will be using literary and cultural theory to
  probe a dominant paradigm in environmental thinking--systems theory. It i
 s to systems theory that the "enaction" theory looks to ground its view of
  how mind and world\nintersect. \n\nThis talk is part of a larger project\
 , called The Ecological Thought\, which I am publishing with Harvard UP ne
 xt year. The Ecological Thought is\, if you like\, the prequel to my book 
 Ecology without Nature. Where do you have to be intellectually\, political
 ly\, philosophically\, to have an idea like ecology without nature? (Which
  argues that in order to enter an "ecological" society we have to trade in
  the idea of Nature at the door.)\n\nIn brief\, the ecological thought is 
 the most thorough possible enagagement with the fact of interconnectedness
 . What are the implications of this fact?\n\nTimothy Morton is Professor o
 f Literature and Environment at University of California-Davis. His new bo
 ok "Ecology without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics" (Harvard 
 University Press\, 2007) explores the value of art in imagining environmen
 tal projects for the future\, developing a fresh vocabulary for reading "e
 nvironmentality" in artistic form as well as content\, and traces the cont
 exts of ecological constructs through the history of capitalism.
LOCATION:CRASSH Seminar Room\, 17 Mill Lane
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