{"id":2582,"date":"2011-02-08T15:43:06","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T20:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?p=2582"},"modified":"2011-04-07T13:21:32","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T18:21:32","slug":"integralism-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2011\/02\/08\/integralism-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate change as a \u2018multiple object\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The “integralists” have waded into the climate change debate with an impressive looking article entitled An Ontology of Climate Change: Integral Pluralism and the Enactment of Multiple Objects<\/a> (click for an excerpt). It’s by Sean Esbjorn-Hargens, one half of the duo that authored the mammoth Integral Ecology.<\/a> (The other half is Heideggerian-turned-Wilberian ecophilosopher Michael Zimmerman, author of what for a time had been the best overview of radical ecophilosophy<\/a> available.)<\/p>\n

I’ve ordered a copy of the paper and will have more to say once I’ve read it. But I like the way Esbjorn-Hargens weaves in a number of strands of post-constructivist<\/a> thought, including the actor-network\/cosmopolitical approaches of Latour, Law, and Mol, and the enactive cognitivism of Varela and Thompson. His notion of climate change as a “multiple object” would appear to suggest a resonance with object-oriented ontology. This bodes well for ecophilosophical dialogue with a school (“integral philosophy”) that has remained a bit aloof from others, mainly because of the baggage accrued to its founder, Ken Wilber. I’m looking forward to that dialogue.<\/p>\n

That reminds me: I once suggested a group cross-blog read of Integral Ecology<\/em>. If anyone else is interested, chime in. I won’t lead it, due to other commitments, but I’d happily participate. There are copies on Amazon for around $20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The “integralists” have waded into the climate change debate with an impressive looking article entitled An Ontology of Climate Change: Integral Pluralism and the Enactment of Multiple Objects (click for an excerpt). It’s by Sean Esbjorn-Hargens, one half of the duo that authored the mammoth Integral Ecology. 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