About this Book

This volume presents an original and in-depth study devoted to the discussion and relevance of the notion of â ~the environmentâ (TM) and â ~ecologyâ (TM) within the frame-work and â ~ontologyâ (TM) of the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and FÃ(c)lix Guattari. Their non-dualist and materialist re-thinking of these issues is analyzed from various positions within Cultural Studies and the Sciences. â ~Thinking Environment[s]â (TM) with DeleuzeGuattari is thus far removed from what might be termed â ~(intellectual) tree-huggingâ (TM)â "it is a call to think complexity, and to complex thinking, a way to think the environment [and environments] as negotiations of human and nonhuman dynamics. Such a thinking by default carefully evades [Cartesian] dualisms such as â ~natureâ (TM) versus â ~culture, â (TM) â ~biologyâ (TM) versus â ~technology, â (TM) or â ~naturalâ (TM) versus â ~artificial.â (TM) At a time when the distinctions [as well as the transitions] between â ~natureâ (TM) and â ~cultureâ (TM) are getting more and more fluid, DeleuzeGuattari's alliance with environmental thinking turns out to be a rather fruitful, exciting, and likely one, one that allows for a single mode of articulating environmental, evolutionary and technological registers and relations and for the conceptualization of a general, non-anthropocentric ecoscience. This book thus aims at a radical re-thinking of these concepts from a DeleuzianGuattarian (i.e. non-dualist and materialist) perspective.