Time, Technology and Environment : : An Essay on the Philosophy of Nature / / Marco Altamirano.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Altamirano, Marco,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Plateaus - New Directions in Deleuze Studies : PLAT
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (184 p.)

A new concept of nature based on Deleuze and Guattari's theories of timeMarco Altamirano critiques the modern concept of nature to chart a new trajectory for the philosophy of nature. He reveals the modern origins of the epistemological configuration of nature, where a subject confronts an object in space (and at time t), and wonders about her mode of access to that object. After critiquing the spatial orientation of this concept of nature, Altamirano shows that a new concept of time is necessary to reinstall the subject within its concrete ecology.Altamirano goes on to deploy conceptual resources excavated from Deleuze, Guattari, Foucault and Leroi-Gourhan to show how technology, which bypasses the nature-artifice distinction, is an essential dimension of the philosophy of nature. Ultimately, this book draws the profile of a concept of nature based on time and technology that escapes the nature-artifice distinction that has mired the philosophy of nature for so long.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Bifurcation of Nature -- PART I Critique of the Bifurcation of Nature -- 1 The Clock and the Cogito -- 2 The Polarisation of Nature -- PART II Toward a New Philosophy of Nature -- 3 Difference and Representation: Deleuze and the Reversal of Platonism -- 4 Beyond the Nature-Artifice Divide: Technology, Milieu and Machine -- Conclusion: The Technological Composition of Milieus -- Index