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Elemental Difference and the Climate of the Body stages a fascinating encounter between two powerful trends in contemporary theory, each of which leans into one side of a tenacious nature-culture dichotomy. How to affirm new materialist insights into the efficacy of nonhuman (material) agency without also relying upon universalizing, racially-unmarked, phallo- and Euro-centric figures of 'the human'? How to practice a critical constructivist's exquisite attentiveness to racialized abjection without ignoring the performativity of earth-wind-fire-air? Parker forges this original and creative path forward -- an ecological philosophy of elemental difference. A subtle and timely analysis. -- Jane Bennett, author of Influx & Efflux: Writing up with Walt Whitman Elemental Difference elaborates a bold and original theoretical gesture - it offers to explain why and how the political and ecological have been held apart in contemporary philosophy. The gesture pays off and results in an ambitious theoretical work that we will be reading, debating and thinking about for years to come. -- Jack Halberstam, author of Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire

Elemental Difference and the Climate of the Body stages a fascinating encounter between two powerful trends in contemporary theory, each of which leans into one side of a tenacious nature-culture dichotomy. How to affirm new materialist insights into the efficacy of nonhuman (material) agency without also relying upon universalizing, racially-unmarked, phallo- and Euro-centric figures of 'the human'? How to practice a critical constructivist's exquisite attentiveness to racialized abjection without ignoring the performativity of earth-wind-fire-air? Parker forges this original and creative path forward -- an ecological philosophy of elemental difference. A subtle and timely analysis. -- Jane Bennett, author of Influx & Efflux: Writing up with Walt Whitman Elemental Difference elaborates a bold and original theoretical gesture - it offers to explain why and how the political and ecological have been held apart in contemporary philosophy. The gesture pays off and results in an ambitious theoretical work that we will be reading, debating and thinking about for years to come. -- Jack Halberstam, author of Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire

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Emily Anne Parker is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Towson University and editor of Differences: Rereading Beauvoir and Irigaray (2017), also published by Oxford University Press.

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