By Levi R Bryant

Onto-Cartography supplies an unapologetic protection of naturalism and materialism, remodeling those prevalent positions and displaying how tradition itself is shaped via nature. Bryant endorses a pan-ecological conception of being, arguing that societies are ecosystems which may in simple terms be understood by way of contemplating nonhuman fabric companies akin to rivers and mountain levels along signifying organizations similar to discourses, narratives, and ideologies. during this method, Bryant lays the rules for a brand new machine-oriented ontology.

This theoretically omnivorous paintings attracts on disciplines as varied as deconstruction, psychoanalysis, Marxism, media reviews, object-oriented ontology, the recent materialist feminisms, actor-network thought, biology, and sociology. via its clean cognizance to nonhumans and fabric being, it additionally presents a framework for integrating the main necessary findings of severe conception and social constructivism.

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