Noir Materialism: Freedom and Obligation in Political Ecology

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Acknowledgments
Chapter 1
	Transcalar Ecology
		A New Process Philosophy of Nature
			NATURE AND PROCESS
			SCHELLING’S PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE
			TRANSCALAR ECOLOGY
			Dynamic reciprocity
			Constitutive interconnectivity
			The involution of life
			TRANSCALAR ECOLOGY AS ONTOLOGY
			Hylozoism
			Assemblage theory
			Network theory
			TRANSCALAR ECOLOGY AND SCIENTIFIC ECOLOGY
			CONCLUSION
			NOTES
Chapter 2
	Noir Materialism
		Film Noir, Dark Matter, and Schelling’s Primordial Night
			NATURE AND MATTER
			FILM NOIR AND DARK MATTER
			SCHELLING’S MATERIALISM
			SUBJECTIVITY EMERGES
			NOIR MATERIALISM
			CONCLUSION
			NOTES
Chapter 3
	Freedom and Evil
		Schelling, Arendt, and the Nightside of Politics
			NATURE AND FREEDOM
			KANT, FICHTE, SCHELLING
			FREEDOM AND EVIL
			NATURE AND NATALITY
			ONTOLOGICAL FREEDOM AND POLITICAL FREEDOM
			CONCLUSION
			NOTES
Chapter 4
	Companion Ecologies
		A New Theory of the Subject
			NATURE AND THE SUBJECT
			COMPANION ECOLOGIES
			ARCHITECTURE, THE HUMAN MICROBIOME, INDIGENOUS AMAZONIAN ONTOLOGIES
			ECOLOGICALLY CONDITIONED SUBJECTS
			CONCLUSION
			NOTES
Chapter 5
	Econormativity
		Esposito and the Immunological Roots of Obligation
			NATURE AND NORMATIVITY
			AN ALTERNATIVE COMMUNITARIANISM
			COMMUNITY AND IMMUNITY
			OBLIGATION (THE
			ESPOSITO’S AFFIRMATIVE BIOPOLITICS
			ECONORMATIVITY
			NOTES
	Conclusion
	SHOOTING A BLACK ELEPHANT
	NOTES
	Bibliography
	Index
	About the Author