... past the feeling of deprivation that comes from shedding centuries‐old philosophical assumptions and that their explicit rejection of the nature/culture binary makes their work better suited to addressing the great problem of our time — climate change. [email protected] Copyright...

...Anthony Pagden Parker Geoffrey , Global Crisis: War, Climatic Change, and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century . ( New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 2013 ), 845 pp. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015...

... and Stengers's arguments for slowing down science and learning to “compose with Gaia.” In conjunction, they generate a pattern of speculative, conceptual, practical, and political motifs for dealing with changing climates. The second half of the essay uses those insights to test a divergent series of proposals...

... is available for redescription goes too far by undermining the idea of objectivity. The consequence is a loss of scientific authority, which is particularly catastrophic in light of climate-change denial. On the other hand, though, Rorty does not go far enough, in that his philosophy implicitly relies...

...Isabelle Stengers Abstract This memorial to Latour is not an appraisal of his fifty-year research career but the report of a traveling companion with a story to share about the apparent lack of continuity, the sudden, unapologetic, unprincipled changes of position, with which he surprised...

... and environmental degradation. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Jan Golinski 2023 Richard Rorty Thomas Kuhn Gaia Bruno Latour Isabelle Stengers In Nicholas Gaskill's article, “Rorty against Rorty: Climate Change, Rug-Pulling, and the Rhetoric of Philosophy,” the philosopher stands...

... dealing with climate, usually defined as long-­standing patterns of weather in a particular region. Still, climate modeling must become as predictive as possible to counter skepticism about climate change and anecdotal evidence suggesting that the earth’s atmosphere...

...),608pp. Martin Meisel,ChaosImagined:Literature, Art,Science next period of severe climate change, of cold and wet, is now thought to have now have is ofto thought coldwet, and change, ofclimate severe period next the that reflect to But interesting is orsheer greed. area, the ofinto...

... of Simians, Cyborgs, and Women, 502. was the 2004 publication of Why Has Critique Run Out of Steam? in Critical Inquiry, which, among other things, suggested that deniers of climate change had rendered social constructivism and deconstruction critically impotent by appro- priating and misusing some...

... that climate change is happening, that it is now or soon will be calamitous, that we occupy a new geologic era, and that human power, if we act immediately, can stop its destructive advance. It is becoming de rigueur as well to assume that, in a sense—perhaps figural—the planet Earth is conscious, sullen...

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... for the oversight and criticism of political acts and procedures. This shift reflects a transnational trend. In 2020, citizens’ assemblies on climate change were held in England, Scotland, and Hungary, as well as in France. Over the course of the last decade, hundreds, possibly thousands, of minipublics have...

..., politics, and, not least, cultural studies. Whether COVID- 19 or climate change, the world confronts existential challenges that are all- encompassing in scale and scope. This admirable collection of essays, which followed from the exhi- bitions Traversing the Globe through Illuminated Manuscripts (2016...

... (climate change or merely Indian summer?). Snatched memories, I catch them on the wing: Samos Septembers, pomegranate tree, at the Japanese-themed street fair today. Somnambulists along the promenade float in the warm currents of Broadway, eat talk look linger in the sun and shade. Reading...

... be appropriated by today's alt-right “post-truthers.” 4 At the same time, Rorty is accused of retaining and relying on a distinction—between causes and meanings—that has inhibited our ability to deal with pressing existential threats (in other words, climate change) since it privileges culture over nature...

... element regarding Western science, by no means muffled by their shared concerns over climate change. 30 More significantly, part of what has distinguished their work, certainly Latour's, from more traditional views of science is an emphasis on the contingency of scientific facticity and, accordingly...

... of their respective philosophical positions. The changed way in which Latour, Stengers, and Haraway propose that we understand agency and causation is, Gaskill holds, “necessary for more than philosophical reasons. Without it, we will have a harder time responding to climate change”: “It is difficult, using Rorty...

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