CiNii Books - Postmodern ecology : communication, evolution, and play

This book spins a historical fable about the trends in European thought that have contributed to the rise of industrial civilization and to the ecological crisis. It explores alternative visions of nature and culture, from Romanticism to ecological theory, in an effort to rewrite the story of natural and cultural history. Its themes include ecological poetics, technological artistry, evolutionary learning, the play of communication, and the struggle for a viable ecological ethic.

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List of Figures Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Cybernetic Imaginations Old and New: Communication and Control in Living Systems Toward a New Demonology: The Confluence of Mind and Nature Infodynamics: The Creative Fusion of Mind and Matter Toward a Recursive Vision of Postmodern Diversity Ecological Feminism: A New Dialogue between Man and Woman, Nature and Culture or How to Stop Fighting and Start Playing Chapter 1: Postmodern Ecology and the Crisis of Modernity The Languages of "Nature" and "Culture": Ecological and Postmodern Discourses The Convergence of Postmodernity and Ecology The Project of Modernity: A Historical Fable about the Domination of Nature The Foundations of Modern Science The "Human" Empire: Science, Technology, and Capitalism The Mastery of "Mother" Nature Classical and Medieval Antecedents: The Great Chain Splitting the Ecosystem: The Ecological Crisis Implicit in Modernism From Ancient Mythos to Modern Logos to Postmodern Ecologos The Humanists Strike Back Ecology and Postmodernity: Toward a New Critique of Modernism I: Writing the Story of Natural History II: Toward a Neostructuralist Ecology III: A New Look at an Old Myth: From Genesis to the Joyous Science The Moral of the Story Chapter 2: Ecology and Lifeworld Spirit in Flames: Toward a Postmodern-Ecological Phenomenology The Poetry of Evolution: Steps to an Ecology of Mind Radical Cybernetics: Life as Communication The Charm and Terror of Digitation Two Evolutionary Models Stepping Backward: From Learning to Evolution Toward New Evolutionary Personae Seeds of Ecometaphorical Identity: From Arizona to the Amazon to Walden Pond Chapter 3: Ecosociality: From the Universal Logos of Communicative Rationality to the Situated Mythos of Ecofeminism Communicative Action and the Serious Ascent toward a Rational Society Communication and the Ecometaphorical Differentiation of Society The Play of Nature and Culture Steps toward a Multicultural Mind or La Pensée Sauvage Talks Back Who Is that Masked Woman? or Superbarrio Meets Ecofemina A Stitch in Time: The Quilt of Ecosociality Chapter 4: Ecopoetics: Literary Ecology and Postmodernity Ecological Poetics Literary Ecology and Postmodernity in Thomas Sanchez's Mile Zero and Thomas Pynchon's Vineland What Is Literary Ecology? The Origins of Literary Ecology Literary Ecology in Mile Zero and Vineland Chapter 5: From the Ecological Wasteland to the Cybernetic City: Communication, Evolution, War, and Play The Play of Communication Toward a Living Demonology Cybercity, Here We Come: Play in Virtual Reality versus the Manichaean Struggle for the Electropolis Notes Works Cited Index

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