Onto-Cartography: An Ontology of Machines and Media

by Levi Bryant

Book Overview

Onto-Cartography gives an unapologetic defense of naturalism and materialism, transforming these familiar positions and showing how culture itself is formed by nature. Bryant endorses a pan-ecological theory of being, arguing that societies are ecosystems that can only be understood by considering nonhuman material agencies such as rivers and mountain ranges alongside signifying agencies such as discourses, narratives and ideologies. In...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748679979
• ISBN13: 9780748679973
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"