Russell Duvernoy develops 'resonances' between the metaphysics of
Whitehead and Deleuze with regard to effects on attention and
affect. The implications of these lead to an altered existential
orientation, described by Duvernoy as ecological attunement. This
original concept suggests that attention is ontologically creative,
not just passively receptive, and feeling and affect are
ontologically prior to the consolidation of lived subjectivity. The
combined effects of these speculative claims cut deeply against the
grain of prevailing habits with regard to subjectivity. Though
these results are resolutely speculative, they unfold amidst
intensifying ecological crisis and accompanying social, political
and existential turbulence. What does it mean to pursue speculative
thinking in this context? How do metaphysical concepts inform our
lives and how might different concepts lead to different ways of
life? Drawing on recent work by Massumi, Stengers, Debaise and
Williams, this study explores their work in relation to other
speculative trends in recent philosophy, including new
materialisms, posthumanisms, speculative realism and
object-oriented-ontology.
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