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Ontological Politics in a Disposable World - The New Mastery of Nature (Paperback)
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Ontological Politics in a Disposable World - The New Mastery of Nature (Paperback)
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This book explores the intertwining of politics and ontology,
shedding light on the ways in which, as our ability to investigate,
regulate, appropriate, 'enhance' and destroy material reality have
developed, so new social scientific accounts of nature and our
relationship with it have emerged, together with new forms of
power. Engaging with cutting-edge social theory and elaborating on
the thought of Foucault, Heidegger, Adorno and Agamben, the author
demonstrates that the convergence of ontology with politics is not
simply an intellectual endeavour of growing import, but also a
governmental practice which builds upon neoliberal programmes, the
renewed accumulation of capital and the development of
technosciences in areas such as climate change, geoengineering and
biotechnology. With shifts in our accounts of nature have come new
means of mastering it, giving rise to unprecedented forms of
exploitation and destruction - with related forms of social
domination. In the light of growing social inequalities,
environmental degradation and resource appropriation and
commodification, Ontological Politics in a Disposable World: The
New Mastery of Nature reveals the need for new critical frameworks
and oppositional practices, to challenge the rationality of
government that lies behind these developments: a rationality that
thrives on indeterminacy and an account of materiality as comprised
of fluid, ever-changing states, simultaneously agential and
pliable, to which social theory increasingly subscribes without
questioning enough its underpinnings and implications. A
theoretically sophisticated reassessment of the relationship
between ontology and politics, which draws the contours of a
renewed humanism to allow for a more harmonious relationship with
the world, this book will appeal to scholars in social and
political theory, environmental sociology, geography, science and
technology studies and contemporary European thought on the
material world.
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