Climate machines, fascist drives, and truth
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Climate machines, fascist drives, and truth
Duke University Press, 2019
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction. Climate, Fascism, Truth 1
1. Sophocles, Mary Shelley, and the Planetary 17
2. The Anthropocene as Abstract Machine 46
3. The Lure of Truth 72
Notes 99
Bibliography 115
Index 121
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