Time, Technology and Environment: An Essay on the Philosophy of Nature

by Marco Altamirano

Overview

Marco Altamirano critiques the modern concept of nature to chart a new trajectory for the philosophy of nature. He 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781474425797
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publication date:	08/01/2017
Series:	Plateaus - New Directions in Deleuze Studies
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Marco Altamirano teaches in the Philosophy Department at Louisiana State University. He has published in several philosophy journals including Foucault Studies, Symplokē and the Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Bifurcation of Nature
1. The Clock and the Cogito
2. The Polarisation of Nature
3. Difference and Representation: Deleuze and the Reversal of Platonism
4. Beyond the Nature-Artifice Divide: Technology, Milieu, and Machine
Conclusion: Toward a New Philosophy of Nature

What People are Saying About This

Altamirano has given us profound and timely work, written in the tradition of Bergson, Whitehead, Deleuze and Latour. In showing how our technologies have influenced our philosophical notions of nature and time, the book might easily have been titled "The Clock and the Cogito". Highly recommended.

William McBride

Deploying a formidable knowldge of the histories of Western philosophy and science, Altamirano offers a way out of the bifurcation between nature and the human and towards a new approach to understanding and living in our environment. At once erudite and forward-looking, this book entices its readers to adopt a promisingly novel view of both nature and technology.

Daniel W. Smith

Altamirano has given us profound and timely work, written in the tradition of Bergson, Whitehead, Deleuze and Latour. In showing how our technologies have influenced our philosophical notions of nature and time, the book might easily have been titled "The Clock and the Cogito". Highly recommended.

Editorial Reviews

Altamirano has given us profound and timely work, written in the tradition of Bergson, Whitehead, Deleuze and Latour. In showing how our technologies have influenced our philosophical notions of nature and time, the book might easily have been titled "The Clock and the Cogito". Highly recommended.

Daniel W. Smith

Deploying a formidable knowldge of the histories of Western philosophy and science, Altamirano offers a way out of the bifurcation between nature and the human and towards a new approach to understanding and living in our environment. At once erudite and forward-looking, this book entices its readers to adopt a promisingly novel view of both nature and technology.

William McBride