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Collapse Volume VI: Geo/Philosophy

Date
2010
Publisher
Sequence Press
Format
Artists' Books
Details
Softcover
Size
11.5 × 17.5 × 3.5 cm
Length
540 
Description

Following Collapse V’s inquiry into the legacy of Copernicus’ deposing of Earth from its central position in the cosmos, Collapse VI: Geo/Philosophy poses the question: Is there nevertheless an enduring bond between philosophical thought and its terrestrial support, or conversely, is philosophy’s task to escape the planetary horizon?

Following early-modern geophilosophical experiments in utopia, geographies and cartographies real and imaginary have played a double role in philosophy, serving both as governing metaphor and as an ultimate grounding for philosophical thought.

Collapse VI: Geo/Philosophy begins with the provisional premise that the Earth does not square elements of thought but rather rounds them up into a continuous spatial and geographical horizon. Geophilosophy is thus not necessarily the philosophy of the earth as a round object of thought but rather the philosophy of all that can be rounded as an (or the) earth. But in that case, what is the connection between the empirical earth, the contingent material support of human thinking, and the abstract ‘world’ that is the condition for a ‘whole’ of thought?

Collapse VI brings together philosophers, theorists, eco-critics, leading scientific experts in climate change, and artists whose work interrogates the link between philosophical thought, geography and cartography, in order to create a portrait of the present state of ‘planetary thought’.

Contents

ROBIN MACKAY- Editorial Introduction

NICOLA MASCIANDARO – Becoming Spice: Commentary as Geophilosophy

IAIN HAMILTON GRANT – Introduction to Schelling’s On the World Soul

F. W. J. SCHELLING – On the World Soul (Extract)

GREG MCINERNY, DREW PURVES, RICH WILLIAMS, STEPHEN EMMOTT – New Ecologies (Interview)

TIMOTHY MORTO Thinking Ecology: The Mesh, the Strange Stranger and the Beautiful Soul

F I E L D C L U B – How Many Slugs Maketh the Man?

OWEN HATHERLEY – Fossils of Time Future: Bunkers and Buildings from the Atlantic Wall to the South Bank

EYAL WEIZMA Political Plastic (Interview)

ANGELA DETANICO AND RAFAEL LAI A Given Time / A Given Place

MANABRATA GUHA – Introduction to SIMADology: Polemos in the 21st Century

REZA NEGARESTANI – Undercover Softness: An Introduction to the Architecture and Politics of Decay

ROBIN MACKAY – Philosophers’ Islands

CHARLES AVERY – The Islanders: Epilogue

GILLES GRELET – Theory is Waiting

RENEÉ GREE Endless Dreams and Water Between

Limited edition of 1000 copies

ISBN 978-0-9553087-7-2
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