French philosopher and psychoanalyst Félix Guattari, in his The Three Ecologies, was the first to articulate the threefold nature of ecology, but he failed to provide a clear articulation of why there should be three and only three ecologies — not two, not one, not four or more. What is the ontological justification for this […]
Posts Tagged ‘three ecologies’
Rethinking the 3 categories
Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged categories, ecocriticism, EMI, film-philosophy, Guattari, Peirce, three ecologies, triadism, Whitehead on February 9, 2016 | 4 Comments »
I’ve been struggling with how my triadic framework for interpreting art works relates to C. S. Peirce’s categories. When I first developed my triadism (fleshed out in Ecologies of the Moving Image) into the non-Peircian terms of materiality, experience, and representation — which I did in the context of teaching a course on the environmental arts — […]
Rethinking the ‘three ecologies’
Posted in Eco-theory, tagged ecocriticism, Ecologies of the Moving Image, epistemology, Guattari, music, Ontology, Peirce, three ecologies, visual art on March 8, 2014 | 10 Comments »
Or, process-relational ecocriticism 2.0 Two of the courses I’m currently teaching — the intermediate-level “Environmental Literature, Art, and Media” and the senior-level “The Culture of Nature” — require introducing an eco-critical framework appropriate to a wide range of artistic forms, from literature to visual art, music, film and new media. The process-relational framework developed in […]