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Climate Machines, Fascist Drives, and Truth (Hardcover)
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Climate Machines, Fascist Drives, and Truth (Hardcover)
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In this new installation of his work, William E. Connolly examines
entanglements between volatile earth processes and emerging
cultural practices, highlighting relays among extractive
capitalism, self-amplifying climate processes, migrations,
democratic aspirations, and fascist dangers. In three interwoven
essays, Connolly takes up thinkers in the "minor tradition" of
European thought who, unlike Cartesians and Kantians, cross
divisions between nature and culture. He first offers readings of
Sophocles and Mary Shelley, asking whether close attention to the
Anthropocene could perhaps have arrived earlier had subsequent
humanists absorbed their lessons. He then joins Deleuze and
Guattari's notion of an abstract machine with contemporary earth
sciences, doing so to compare the Antique Little Ice Age of the
late Roman empire to contemporary relays between extractive
capitalism and accelerating climate processes. The final essay
stages a dramatic dialogue between Alfred North Whitehead and
Michel Foucault about the pursuit of truth during a time of
planetary turbulence. With Climate Machines Fascist Drives, and
Truth, Connolly forges incisive interventions into key issues of
our time.
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