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Climate Machines, Fascist Drives, and Truth

Exploring the Interconnections of Climate, Culture, and Politics

William E Connolly author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Duke University Press

Published:6th Sep '19

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This insightful work examines the connections between climate change, fascism, and truth, highlighting their interwoven nature in today's world. Climate Machines, Fascist Drives, and Truth offers critical reflections on these pressing issues.

In Climate Machines, Fascist Drives, and Truth, William E. Connolly explores the intricate connections between climate change, fascism, and the concept of truth. He argues that these elements are deeply intertwined, revealing the serious implications of how planetary processes interact with cultural developments. This thought-provoking work examines the entanglements of volatile earth processes and emerging cultural practices, focusing on the interplay between extractive capitalism, climate change, migration, and the threats posed by fascist ideologies.

Connolly presents three interconnected essays that draw on thinkers from the 'minor tradition' of European thought, who challenge the traditional divisions between nature and culture. He begins with insightful readings of Sophocles and Mary Shelley, suggesting that a deeper understanding of the Anthropocene might have emerged sooner if humanists had engaged with their insights. The second essay connects Deleuze and Guattari's idea of an abstract machine with contemporary earth sciences, comparing historical climate events, such as the Little Ice Age, to modern dynamics between capitalism and climate change.

The final essay features a compelling dialogue between Alfred North Whitehead and Michel Foucault, focusing on the pursuit of truth amidst planetary upheaval. Through Climate Machines, Fascist Drives, and Truth, Connolly provides critical reflections on pressing issues of our time, urging readers to reconsider the relationships between environmental crises and sociopolitical movements.

“As ever, William E. Connolly writes prophetically timely work. Even for those of us who read most everything he writes, this book installs fresh strategies, thematics, and illustrations in the vibrant assemblage of his oeuvre. It oscillates between a clarion call to all who have ears to hear as a manifesto for today and a philosophically nuanced, attractive meditation for an open plenary of moments. It shouldn't work. But it does.” -- Catherine Keller, author of * Political Theology of the Earth: Our Planetary Emergency and the Struggle for a New Public *
"This is one of William E. Connolly's most exhilarating books to date. In a riveting exploration of planetary volatility and complex entanglements of human and nonhuman agencies and forces, he moves beyond the 'sociocentrism' of the humanities, human sciences, and contemporary politics in ways that are distinctive and urgent. A searching and brilliant contribution." -- Romand Coles, author of * Visionary Pragmatism: Radical and Ecological Democracy in Neoliberal Times *
"These essays are interventions designed to disrupt our affective confidence in the notion that the world offers us some distinctive and privileged place within it. Moreover, the essays present the world and its climate as given not to simple stability, but rather brimming with a host of amplifiers and triggers, forces and agents, irruptions and disturbances that create immediate and irrevocable change." -- Chadwick Jenkins * Popmatters *
"Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. General readers." -- E. J. Eisenach * Choice *

ISBN: 9781478005896

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 363g

136 pages