Nature as Event: The Lure of the Possible (Thought in the Act)

We have entered a new era of nature. What remains of the frontiers of modern thought that divided the living from the inert, subjectivity from objectivity, the apparent from the real, value from fact, and the human from the nonhuman? Can the great oppositions that presided over the modern invention of nature still claim any cogency? In Nature as Event, Didier Debaise shows how new narratives and cosmologies are necessary to rearticulate that which until now had been separated. Following William James and Alfred North Whitehead, Debaise presents a pluralistic approach to nature. What would happen if we attributed subjectivity and potential to all beings, human and nonhuman? Why should we not consider aesthetics and affect as the fabric that binds all existence? And what if the senses of importance and value were no longer understood to be exclusively limited to the human?

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• Facing Gaia: Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime
• Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Experimental Futures)
• Speculative Empiricism: Revisiting Whitehead (Speculative Realism)
• Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)
• Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene
• Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime
• The Incorporeal: Ontology, Ethics, and the Limits of Materialism
• Another Science is Possible: A Manifesto for Slow Science
• Object-Oriented Ontology: A New Theory of Everything