Reoccupy EarthPub Date : 2019-04-02DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823283545.003.0011
D. Wood
{"title":"Beyond Narcissistic Humanism: Or, in the Face of Anthropogenic Climate Change, Is There a Case for Voluntary Human Extinction?","authors":"D. Wood","doi":"10.5422/fordham/9780823283545.003.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823283545.003.0011","url":null,"abstract":"This concluding chapter examines an enlightened anthropocentrism, one aligned with a certain biocentrism from which it is claimed to be inseparable. What would an enlightened anthropocentrism look like? Such an anthropocentrism would draw upon what may well be uniquely human attributes to construct an account of, or a conversation about, man's place in nature or options for a sustainable future. As proof that this would no longer be vulgar anthropocentrism, it must be possible for enlightened anthropocentrism to conclude, perhaps sadly, that despite being uniquely gifted analytically and imaginatively in being able to understand the situation, there is a dark side to this and/or allied capacities, which renders human presence toxic to the planet. Moreover, it must be possible that such an analysis would recommend the termination of the human project, its modification, or its posthuman redirection.","PeriodicalId":132090,"journal":{"name":"Reoccupy Earth","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115445612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Reoccupy EarthPub Date : 2019-04-02DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823283545.003.0001
D. Wood
{"title":"Introduction: Reinhabiting the earth","authors":"D. Wood","doi":"10.5422/fordham/9780823283545.003.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823283545.003.0001","url":null,"abstract":"This introductory chapter provides an overview of the relationship between habit and climate change. It would be hard to overestimate the role of habit in people's lives. At one level, this is all well and good. There are, of course, bad habits, which people try to kick, but people's daily life would collapse without the scaffolding of habit. Still, when one contemplates climate change and the catastrophic future it presages, it is hard not to conclude that “business as usual” simply cannot continue for long. “Business as usual” means the common cloth of people's Western daily lives, their normal practices, in large part consisting of habits—personal, collective, economic, and intellectual. Forms of life, patterns of dwelling, other than the current consumerist model are undoubtedly possible. But whether people can get there from here voluntarily is another matter. If reinhabiting the earth means changing some of people's deep habits, habits reflecting historical sedimentations and congealings, then unearthing the forces in play, seeing how they operate and what is at stake in reconfiguring them, is a historical task to which philosophy can at least contribute. Economists are also central to imagining other economic orders, such as that of degrowth.","PeriodicalId":132090,"journal":{"name":"Reoccupy Earth","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125292199","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Reoccupy EarthPub Date : 2019-04-02DOI: 10.2307/j.ctvdtpjxz.5
David Wood
{"title":"The Idea of Ecophenomenology","authors":"David Wood","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvdtpjxz.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvdtpjxz.5","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter examines eco-phenomenology. It is tempting to understand eco-phenomenology as a “descriptive science,” as Edmund Husserl characterized phenomenology. However, eco-phenomenology could be thought of as a hybrid: a joint venture between phenomenological ecology and ecological phenomenology. In principle, an ecologically oriented phenomenology would experientially counteract the toxic effects of hubristic conceptualization through which people often connect with the natural world. The chapter then argues for a phenomenology that does not seek refuge in being simply descriptive, as Husserl sought, but takes seriously its capacity for edification, for renewal. Later, in Martin Heidegger's hands, phenomenology more strongly opens up alternative ways of thinking about people's earthly dwelling, ones that point to a reinhabiting of the earth.","PeriodicalId":132090,"journal":{"name":"Reoccupy Earth","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115920130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Reoccupy EarthPub Date : 2019-04-02DOI: 10.2307/j.ctvdtpjxz.9
D. Wood
{"title":"Reversals and Transformations","authors":"D. Wood","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvdtpjxz.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvdtpjxz.9","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter assesses the significance of such challenging experiences of reversal, transformation, displacement, and frame-shifting—how they are possible, what they suggest for the practice of philosophy, and how they bear on the shape of humanity's earthly dwelling. It discusses a broad range of experiences, with a view to drawing from them some sort of productive schematization. Taken together, the specific relevance of these examples to bringing about “the change we need” on the environmental front becomes clear. The example of the broken hammer is a reminder of how much people take a fallible technology for granted. Meanwhile, Heidegger suggests that the instrumental understanding of language is allied with technological mastery of the earth. Musing on mortality is equally open to a range of dramatic transformations. Awareness of one's mortality, and the ultimate price being paid for humanity being alive by other species, can give urgency and intensity to the search for sustainable existence. Love, empathy, engagement with nonhuman animals, and the experience of art all take people out of themselves, or mean and narrow versions of themselves, and allow them to imagine other, less defensive, more generous, guiding dispositions. Finally, coming to see the earth as itself vulnerable and fragile can shake people out of their infantile disregard for its own requirements. Ultimately, these various experiential reversals make possible a concerted change in how people live, move, and have their being.","PeriodicalId":132090,"journal":{"name":"Reoccupy Earth","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124257159","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Reoccupy EarthPub Date : 2019-04-02DOI: 10.1163/156916406779165917
D. Wood
{"title":"On Being Haunted by the Future","authors":"D. Wood","doi":"10.1163/156916406779165917","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/156916406779165917","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter discusses the future as another site of contestation. Jacques Derrida insists that people understand the “to-come” not as a real future “down the road” but rather as a universal structure of immanence. However, such a structure is no substitute for the hard work of taking responsibility for what are often entirely predictable and preventable disasters. It is important to steer clear of the utopian black hole, the thought—or shape of desire—that the future would need to bring a future perfection or completion. To avoid the trap set by such a shape of desire, it is not necessary—indeed is necessary not—to reduce the future to a universal structure of immanence. What is equally disturbing is not people's inability to expect the unexpected but the failure of the institutions to prevent the all-too-predictable. Too many of the institutions have conditions of sustainability that are unhealthily insulated from the real world, or indeed coconspirators in the fantasy that people can go on like this.","PeriodicalId":132090,"journal":{"name":"Reoccupy Earth","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126563125","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Reoccupy EarthPub Date : 2019-04-02DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823254255.003.0015
D. Wood
{"title":"My Place in the Sun","authors":"D. Wood","doi":"10.5422/fordham/9780823254255.003.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823254255.003.0015","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explores situations in which “place” is the site of contestation, and where history plays a central role in that contestation. It highlights and considers the connection between the existential sense of right attached to one's bodily existence, the values associated with dwelling and home, and the political and ecological consequences of the ways in which the scope of this sense of right is interpreted. Place and its history and promise are central to these issues. Here then is the argument: People take for granted as the ground of every other right and privilege their individual right to exist, to have their “place in the sun.” This is rarely contested, and it is undoubtedly defensible. The image of “my place in the sun” makes it clear that one is not talking about a privileged spot on a private beach but a place on earth that does not deprive others of what is theirs. The chapter then looks at the historical constitution of place.","PeriodicalId":132090,"journal":{"name":"Reoccupy Earth","volume":"216 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133403598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Reoccupy EarthPub Date : 2019-04-02DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823283545.003.0004
David Wood
{"title":"Ecological Imagination: A Whiteheadian Exercise in Temporal Phronesis","authors":"David Wood","doi":"10.5422/fordham/9780823283545.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823283545.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter presents an account of temporal phronesis that reflects a somewhat more chastened view of human creativity, drawing on Alfred North Whitehead's original and productive understanding of natural process, time, and creativity. This new temporal phronesis would be a major contribution to habits of thought, and indeed practice, which would not merely transcend the mechanical but move to another level the creative engagement with the environment that Whitehead calls for. To be out of touch, to fail to be attuned to the complexity of time is not just a cognitive but an ethical failure, where the ethical is to be understood not deontologically or instrumentally but in relation to ethos, or dwelling. Such a phronesis would capture both the temporal complexity of the real, and of people's engagement with it, and is central to the ecological imagination. It is only by articulating and enacting such complexity that people can achieve the attunement required for an environmentally sustainable ethos. This attunement is itself a creative accomplishment of the human organism, even as it sets limits to an unbridled sense of the transformability of nature.","PeriodicalId":132090,"journal":{"name":"Reoccupy Earth","volume":"235 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122624105","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Reoccupy EarthPub Date : 2018-03-27DOI: 10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823279500.003.0002
David Wood
{"title":"The Eleventh Plague: Thinking Ecologically after Derrida","authors":"David Wood","doi":"10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823279500.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823279500.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter develops an eleventh “plague” onto Jacques Derrida's list of ten plagues of the New World Order in his Specters of Marx: the growing global climate crisis. Forging an amalgam from Derrida and Heidegger, it shows that the eleventh plague was not just “one more plague” but was at the heart of the first ten, or at least was intimately implied or caught up in them. In the most summary form, this would be to show that questions of violence, law, and social justice are inseparable from ecological sustainability. A similar move would demonstrate that another candidate for the eleventh plague—the animal holocaust—is closely connected both with the first ten plagues and ecological sustainability, perhaps serving as a bridge of sorts. Derrida's remarks about the animal holocaust, and about human suffering and misery, are set in the context of people's denial, blindness, and refusal to acknowledge these phenomena, and the way that human suffering especially represents the contradiction, the hidden waste, produced by an ever more efficiently functioning system.","PeriodicalId":132090,"journal":{"name":"Reoccupy Earth","volume":"193 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114170735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Reoccupy EarthPub Date : 2011-05-02DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823234615.003.0005
R. Kearney, K. Semonovitch
{"title":"Things at the Edge of the World","authors":"R. Kearney, K. Semonovitch","doi":"10.5422/fordham/9780823234615.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823234615.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":132090,"journal":{"name":"Reoccupy Earth","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126642649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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