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Russell Duvernoy develops 'resonances' between the metaphysics of Whitehead and Deleuze with regard to effects on attention and affect. The implications of these lead to an altered existential orientation, described by Duvernoy as ecological attunement. This original concept suggests that attention is ontologically creative, not just passively receptive, and feeling and affect are ontologically prior to the consolidation of lived subjectivity. The combined effects of these speculative claims cut deeply against the grain of prevailing habits with regard to subjectivity. Though these results are resolutely speculative, they unfold amidst intensifying ecological crisis and accompanying social, political and existential turbulence. What does it mean to pursue speculative thinking in this context? How do metaphysical concepts inform our lives and how might different concepts lead to different ways of life? Drawing on recent work by Massumi, Stengers, Debaise and Williams, this study explores their work in relation to other speculative trends in recent philosophy, including new materialisms, posthumanisms, speculative realism and object-oriented-ontology.

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Author:   Russell J. Duvernoy (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, King’s University College at Western University of Ontario)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
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9781474466929

ISBN 10:   1474466923
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   25 August 2022
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: Ecological Turbulence and the Adventure of Metaphysics Attention, Feeling, and Psychic Ecology A Speculative Concept: Ecological Attunement Statement of Purpose PART I: Process Metaphysics and Ecological Attunement 1 Motivating Metaphysics: From Radical Empiricism to Process Risking the Speculative: On Problems and Beginnings Attending to the Bifurcation of Nature Pure Experience as Series and Events Realism and Asubjective Experience 2 Individuation and Attunement: Identities in Process Constructing a Problem: Individuality at the Intersection of the Abstract and Existential Three Theses on Individuation in Process or Event Based Thinking 3 Feeling as Creation: Affect and Tertiary Qualities Perspectival Realism and Primary-Secondary-Tertiary Qualities Subjective Aim and Intensity Attention, Attunement, and Becoming-Imperceptible? 4 Attention, Openness, and Ecological Attunement Two Forms of Passage and Subjective Attention Subject as Society: Openness and Stability ‘Lines of Flight’ and Paradoxes of Normativity PART II: Applied Metaphysics and Existential Implications 5 Attention, Equivalence, and Existential Territories 1. Existential Territories and Psychic Ecologies 2. The Infiltration of Equivalence: From Operation to Axiology 3. Attention as Ontological and Counter-Habits 6 The Risks of Affect 1. The Double Bind of Ecological Attunement 2. Attunement and Affect: Vitality before World 3. Tertiary Qualities and Self/Other 4. Janus-Faced Time: Selection and Orientation in Ecological Attunement Conclusion: Fabulation and Epoch(s) to Come 1. Implications for Ecological Attunement 2. Fabulation and Imagination as Affirmative Resistance References Cited Index.

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"Duvernoy deploys the process metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead and Gilles Deleuze to develop a speculative concept of ""ecological attunement"" that speaks to both environmental and political climate. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.---D. A. Forbes, West Chester University of Pennsylvania ""CHOICE"" Duvernoy's remarkable book marshals his detailed analyses of the metaphysics of Deleuze and Whitehead to develop an environmental philosophy of ecological attunement that is grounded in conviction that the style and quality of our existential ""attention"" to the world has profound ontological consequences. Duvernoy remains focused throughout on the question of what it means to live ethically and affirmatively in the face of our ecological crisis, forging a highly original philosophy that combines metaphysical speculation with a deep-seated existential engagement. Highly recommended.-- ""Daniel W. Smith, Purdue University"""

Duvernoy deploys the process metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead and Gilles Deleuze to develop a speculative concept of ""ecological attunement"" that speaks to both environmental and political climate. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. -- -D. A. Forbes, West Chester University of Pennsylvania * CHOICE * Duvernoy’s remarkable book marshals his detailed analyses of the metaphysics of Deleuze and Whitehead to develop an environmental philosophy of ecological attunement that is grounded in conviction that the style and quality of our existential ""attention"" to the world has profound ontological consequences. Duvernoy remains focused throughout on the question of what it means to live ethically and affirmatively in the face of our ecological crisis, forging a highly original philosophy that combines metaphysical speculation with a deep-seated existential engagement. Highly recommended. * Daniel W. Smith, Purdue University *

Author Information

Russell Duvernoy is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at King’s University College at Western University of Ontario. His work draws on continental philosophy and process philosophies to engage with environmental questions and climate crisis. His articles have appeared in Southern Journal of Philosophy, Transactions of Charles S. Peirce Society, Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Metaphilosophy, Deleuze and Guattari Studies, Radical Philosophy Review, and others.

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