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The Philosophy of Matter is a journey in thinking through the material fate of the earth itself; its surfaces and undercurrrents, ecologies, environments and irreparable cracks.With figures such as Spinoza, Gilles Deleuze and Michel Serres as philosophical guides and writings on New Materialism, Posthumanism and Affect Theory as intellectual context, Rick Dolphijn proposes a radical rethinking of some of the basic themes of philosophy: subjectivity, materiality, body (both human and otherwise) and the act of living. This rethink is a work of imagination and meditation in order to conceive of "another earth for another people". It is a homage to courageous thinking that dares to question the religious, capitalist and humanist realities of the day.A poetic philosophy of how to live in troubling times when even the earth beneath us feels unstable, Dolphijn offers a way to think about the world with depth, honesty and glimpses of hope.
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Rick Dolphijn is Associate Professor at Utrecht University, the Netherlands; an Honorary Professor at Hong Kong University (2017-2023), Hong Kong; and a Visiting Professor at the University of Barcelona (2019-2020), Spain. He is author of Foodscapes: towards a Deleuzian Ethics of Consumption (2004), New Materialism: Interviews and Cartographies (with Iris van der Tuin) (2012) and edited (with Rosi Braidotti) This Deleuzian Century: Art, Activism, Life (2014) and Philosophy After Nature (2017). His most recent book is Michel Serres and the Crises of the Contemporary (Bloomsbury 2018).
Table of Contents
IntroductionPart IIMAGINING THE UNDERCURRENTI Don't Know Where This Is Going but I Know Where to Begin...The History Of Cartesianism Is The History Of CritiqueWhy our world demands a different form of thinkingRewriting HumanismImagination Is What Matters… It Nurtures EverythingPart IITHIS IS NOT THE EARTH!The Philosopher is the GeometerThe Deserted…The Pathologists Of The EarthBecome A TargetPart IIII CAN SEE SOMETHINGI Am Not A Person, Right?Shadows In ShadowsThe Cracks Of The ContemporaryThe Wound (I Was Born To Embody)Part IVGEOMETER, SHOW ME A NEW EARTHThe Geometer Starts From A Physics Beyond CritiqueThe Geometers First Axiom: A Body Is That Which FoldsThe Geometer Maps That Which Is Savage, Irregular, AliveThe Geometer Maps How Art ObjectsEarth… You Are Everywhere
Review
It is a rare book that can be, at once, so seismically unsettling and yet so sumptuously composed. The world is breaking, broken. By deftly tracking among and between the cracks that are everywhere – in literature, philosophy, dance, architecture, the earth's surface and substrata – Rick Dolphijn's meditation should be profoundly melancholic (and often it is) but it arrives with the Spinozist grace of a benediction. * Gregory J. Seigworth, Professor of Digital Communication & Cultural Studies, Millersville University, USA *Rather than choosing to be a polarizing book by virtue of veering off to the extremes of posthumanism or humanism, Rick Dolphijn's The Philosophy of Matter is a much more subtle and mindful exercise in ameliorating and mending the great schism between the two. Through a wealth of literary, cultural, and theoretical cases and arguments, Dolphijn advocates a critical humanism that rises from the ashes of the old form of humanism through the combined forces of imagination and critique afforded to it by an account of nature that enriches the human and its interactions with the world of which it is a part. In doing so, such an account of nature actively reinvents not only what the non-human can be but also what we historically consider the human to be. * Reza Negarestani, author of "Intelligence and Spirit" *A concise yet focused book delving into the relationship between the turbulent life we currently live and the planet. * Digital University Magazine, Utrecht University *
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A philosophical meditation on the fate of the earth drawing upon contemporary ideas in new materialism, posthumanism and the environmental humanities
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Rather than choosing to be a polarizing book by virtue of veering off to the extremes of posthumanism or humanism, Rick Dolphijn's The Philosophy of Matter is a much more subtle and mindful exercise in ameliorating and mending the great schism between the two. Through a wealth of literary, cultural, and theoretical cases and arguments, Dolphijn advocates a critical humanism that rises from the ashes of the old form of humanism through the combined forces of imagination and critique afforded to it by an account of nature that enriches the human and its interactions with the world of which it is a part. In doing so, such an account of nature actively reinvents not only what the non-human can be but also what we historically consider the human to be.
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A philosophical meditation on the fate of the earth drawing upon contemporary ideas in new materialism, posthumanism and the environmental humanities
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Timely topic - a philosophical meditation on a destroyed earth will be of interest to those studying or concerned about climate change, radical ecology and posthuman ethics
Details ISBN1350211907 Author Rick Dolphijn Short Title The Philosophy of Matter Series Theory in the New Humanities Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 1350211907 ISBN-13 9781350211902 Format Paperback Subtitle A Meditation Imprint Bloomsbury Academic Pages 176 UK Release Date 2021-08-12 Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom NZ Release Date 2021-08-12 Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Publication Date 2021-08-12 DEWEY 146.3 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education AU Release Date 2021-10-06 We've got this
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