By: Deborah Danowski
For further precisions concerning Viveiros de Castro’s concept of multinaturalism (adopted by Latour), may I suggest the reading of his Métaphysiques Cannibales (PUF, 2009), which by the way contains...
View ArticleBy: Paul Reid-Bowen
Fascinating stuff Adrian, I’ll have to ask Graham Harvey what he thinks of Descola’s work; not someone I was even aware of prior to your post.
View ArticleBy: Adrian J Ivakhiv
Thanks for those references, Deborah. The Latour piece you cite, a guest editorial he had written for Anthropology Today, is a useful (and funny) introduction to both Descola and Viveiros de Castro....
View ArticleBy: Tim Morton
Yeah. I suggest animism (but sous rature) in The Ecological Thought. I’m happy that it’s without nature but not so happy with the vitalism.
View ArticleBy: michael
“Descola’s basic duality of “interiority” and “physicality” can be seen as analogous to the duality I’ve elsewhere articulated as that of subjectivation and objectivation, i.e. the becoming-subject and...
View ArticleBy: skholiast
Fine piece, Adrian. I was going to suggest the “‘Type’or’bomb’?” piece but Deborah beat me to it. As a fan of some sort of reinvigorated “animism” (maybe, as Morton would write it, animism...
View ArticleBy: Adrian J Ivakhiv
Thanks for the comments, all. Since the excerpt posted above includes citations but no list of references, I thought it would be useful to add those here… I think this is all of them, plus Descola 2008...
View ArticleBy: Adrian J Ivakhiv
Michael – I agree that ‘interiority’ and ‘physicality’ might not be the ideal terms, since the distinction implies that the interior is not physical and vice versa, and since the other terms Descola...
View ArticleBy: david mcconville
Hi Adrian. I couldn’t help but notice the similarities in Descola’s language and that used within the “integral methodological pluralism” promoted by Michael Zimmerman and Sean Esbjörn-Hargens in the...
View ArticleBy: Adrian J Ivakhiv
Hi David – I’ve dipped into it several times now, but haven’t read the whole thing through yet. My reactions so far have been mixed, but it’s unfair to present them until I give it a full read. I...
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View ArticleBy: Kai Lundgren-Williams
Hi Everyone Likely there is a more developed conversation about this elsewhere, but I am wondering about the view you present, erstwhile so beautifully and coherently, Adrian, that there is a “general...
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