On the Nature of Ecological Paradox

Foreword
Prologue
Acknowledgments
Contents
About the Authors
Part I: Tractatus Ecologia Paradoxi
	Chapter 1: Introduction
		1.1 Ecological Interpolations
		1.2 Troubadours
		1.3 A Counter-Intuitive Discourse
	Chapter 2: On the Nature of Paradox
		2.1 Fundamental Current Contradictions
		2.2 The Extinction Debates
	Chapter 3: Ecological Problems and Paradigmatic Solutions
		3.1 Science Policy and Human Nature
		3.2 Trigger Effects and Moral Half-Resolutions
	Chapter 4: Protected Area Dilemmas
		4.1 The Paradox of Ecological Comparisons
		4.2 Psychology and Policy
		4.3 Human Nature and Red Foxes
		4.4 Legal Standing for Nature
	Chapter 5: The Paradox of Protection
		5.1 Contradictions of Environmental History
	Chapter 6: The Ecclesiastes Factor
		6.1 The Satiation of Choices: Imperatives and Priorities
		6.2 The Sum Total of Destructions
		6.3 The Ecology of Ecclesiastes
	Chapter 7: Pathologies of Self-Image
		7.1 Quagmires of Consciousness
		7.2 Synderesis
		7.3 The Separation of Concept and Calculation
		7.4 Between Rodin and Tragedy
	Chapter 8: Paradoxical Frontiers
		8.1 Intra-Fallacy
		8.2 Ecosystem-Scaled Paradox
		8.3 Microcosmic Narratives
		8.4 Utopian Contradictions
		8.5 What Do We Know? What Do We Actually Perceive?
		8.6 Amaurotic Compromises
		8.7 Anthropical Sub-texts
		8.8 Us?
	Chapter 9: The Obsolescence of Presuppositions
		9.1 The Ineffable Landscape
		9.2 Hypercontradictory Naturalism
	Chapter 10: Ecological Contradiction, Antinomy, and Counter-Intuition
		10.1 To Fly or Not to Fly?
		10.2 Paradoxical Sub-sets
		10.3 The Argument for Equilibria
	Chapter 11: Heavy and Light Contingencies of Consciousness
		11.1 Jean-Paul Sartre and the Contingencies of Being
		11.2 Prefigurements of the Odyssey
	Chapter 12: The Paradise Paradox
		12.1 Statistical Islands and Mainlands
		12.2 The Ghent Paradox
		12.3 No Painting Is an Island
	Chapter 13: Codex Sinaiticus
		13.1 The Holy Mountain
		13.2 The World of Saint John Climacus
		13.3 The Incarnation of Fragments
		13.4 Structures of Biblical Consciousness
	Chapter 14: Russell’s Paradox as Ecological Proxy
		14.1 Surrogate Ecologies
		14.2 The Confusion Borne of Trichotomy
		14.3 EPR Paradox
	Chapter 15: The Evolution of Innocence and Strategy
		15.1 Ethics and the Biological
		15.2 On a Tightrope Between Innocence and Experience
	Chapter 16: Tatters and Poignancies
		16.1 Epiphanies in Rome
		16.2 Museological Nostalgias
	Chapter 17: The Echoes of Malhazine
		17.1 Time-Out in Africa
		17.2 Reversing the Tides
		17.3 The Search for a Sanctuary Amid Conurbations
	Chapter 18: A Cave at Taranga
		18.1 A Question of Nirvana (Fig. 18.1)
		18.2 The Cave
		18.3 Whorls of Existence
		18.4 Revelations That Cascade
		18.5 Fearless Before Infinity
		18.6 Co-depressions
		18.7 Ecological Interrelationships
		18.8 Biological Restoration
	Chapter 19: A Village in Prince Christian Sound
		19.1 Lunatic Bifurcations
		19.2 A Teleology of Killing
		19.3 The Severe Silences of Archaeology
	Chapter 20: The Grampians
		20.1 Beauteous, Befallen (Fig. 20.1)
		20.2 Every Conceivable Infliction
		20.3 The Ecology of Fiscal Riot
	Chapter 21: The Yasuní Effect
		21.1 The Great Bounty (Fig. 21.1)
		21.2 The Paradox of Opposites in the Same Rainforest
		21.3 Evolutionary Enigmas
	Chapter 22: Sakteng
		22.1 The Pressure from Within
		22.2 The Philosophy and Computational Ecology of a Single Road
	Chapter 23: A River Somewhere in Georgia
		23.1 Negative Convergence
		23.2 In Opposition to Reverie
		23.3 A Near-Perfect Mirror
		23.4 The Oxygen Paradox
	Chapter 24: Jan van Goyen’s Exquisite Obsession
		24.1 Golden Memories
		24.2 The Atlas of a Romantic
		24.3 A Philosophy of Vulnerability
	Chapter 25: Paradox of the Lamb
		25.1 Iconographic Communions
		25.2 Notwithstanding “Donderdag Veggiedag”
	Chapter 26: Botanical Equations for Paradox
		26.1 The Language of Flowers
		26.2 Ground Zero, Colorado
		26.3 Plant Pertinacity Curves
		26.4 Botanical Frontiers
		26.5 Flowers Among the Ancients
Part II: Ecological Memories and Fractions
	Chapter 27: The Metaphysics of Photography
		27.1 The Photographic Ecosystem
		27.2 Picturesque Prolegomenae
		27.3 Yosemite and Niagara
		27.4 Psychic Divides
		27.5 Mortality and Memory
	Chapter 28: The Consolations of a Château
		28.1 A Distinctly Indoor Paradise
		28.2 The Romance of a Ruin
	Chapter 29: Book of the Dead
		29.1 Zoomorphic Perplexities
		29.2 Modern Waste Lands
		29.3 In Memoriam of the Birds
	Chapter 30: Ecological Double-Binds
		30.1 Survival Against Our Best Interests
		30.2 Ethical Prioritizing
	Chapter 31: The Temptation of the Catastrophe: Deep Structures of Suicide
		31.1 Classifying Human Behavior
		31.2 Variables in Evolutionary Theory
		31.3 Death-Driven Vicissitudes
	Chapter 32: Cave Paintings of the Mind
		32.1 Provocative Bifurcations of Civilization
		32.2 The Paleolithic Others
		32.3 Life Before Conquest
		32.4 That Which Continues to Haunt
	Chapter 33: Moral Choices in an Epoch of Angst
		33.1 Conservation Success and Failure
		33.2 Ecological Epidemiologies
	Chapter 34: The Dream of Don Quixote
		34.1 Early Ecological Epics
		34.2 The Illustrated Dreamers
	Chapter 35: The Ratiocinations of Rakiura
		35.1 Decidedly Ambiguous Reveries
		35.2 Rhapsodies in Green (Fig. 35.2)
		35.3 Reluctant Killing Fields
	Chapter 36: Human Evolution at a Glance Within Ryoan-ji
		36.1 The Smallest Utopias in the World (Fig. 36.1)
	Chapter 37: The Paradox of Light
		37.1 Day One
		37.2 The Deification of Thomas Edison
		37.3 A Moral to the Tale?
	Chapter 38: The Last Numbers of Emptiness
		38.1 Science Laid Bare
		38.2 Between One and Infinity
		38.3 Ecological Numerics
	Chapter 39: Shelley’s Ecological Exile and His Utopia of Animal Rights
		39.1 Various Problems with Human Nature
		39.2 An Ecological Life of Shelley
		39.3 Details Compelling His Apotheosis
		39.4 Ultimate Vindication
	Chapter 40: The Zoosemiotic Paradox of Aesop
		40.1 The Holy Grail of Biosemiotics
		40.2 A Paradoxical Morality Play
		40.3 Aesop’s Many Histories
	Chapter 41: The Conical Temple of Konawsh
		41.1 A Non-violent People
		41.2 Ethical Animism
		41.3 Cows and Buffaloes
		41.4 A Separate Reality
		41.5 Nilgiris Conservation
		41.6 The Worship of Buffalo
		41.7 Ecological Spirituality
		41.8 Konawsh
		41.9 Their Future
	Chapter 42: Does Natural Selection Select for Natural Selection?
		42.1 The Mystique of Choice
		42.2 Shelters and Co-adjacencies
		42.3 Ecological Legacies in Mortar and Stone
		42.4 Natural and Unnatural Occupancies
	Chapter 43: The Paradox of Solace
		43.1 Local Transfigurations
		43.2 A Cosmic Norwich
		43.3 Cultivating One’s Backyard
	Chapter 44: Collodi’s Garden and the Misadventures of Pinocchio
		44.1 The Ecological Imagination
		44.2 The Tuscan Mirrors
		44.3 The Loyalty of Trees
		44.4 Ecollodiology
		44.5 Tuscany’s Biodiversity
	Chapter 45: The Poetics of Biodiversity: Kazantzakis and Crete
		45.1 Timeless Cretan Lyricism
		45.2 The Artistic Divining Rods
		45.3 A Biological Hotspot Within a Hotspot
		45.4 A Clod of Cretan Soil in His Palm
	Chapter 46: Famine in Bangladesh
		46.1 Combinatorial Cruelty in Nature
		46.2 The Tragic Case of Bangladesh
		46.3 A Continuing Crisis
		46.4 Among the Many Tiers of Tragedy
		46.5 Ecologies of Suffering
		46.6 Indices of Pain
	Chapter 47: Sakya Coming Out of His Mountain Retreat
		47.1 That Which Is Earnest
		47.2 Gautama Buddha’s Enlightenment
		47.3 Interpretations of the Enlightened Self
		47.4 The Zen of Rembrandt’s Self-Portraiture
		47.5 Ultimate Impetus
	Chapter 48: The Mind of a Chicken
		48.1 Bougeant and Hildrop
		48.2 The New Zealand Paradox
		48.3 Breeding Contempt
		48.4 Intelligence Quotients
		48.5 The Strange Tragedy of a Brain
		48.6 Divisions That Fail to Unite
	Chapter 49: The Christ Paradox
		49.1 Christ Imagery: The Raw Ideals
		49.2 Nuances of a Spiritual Rallying Cry
	Chapter 50: Unthinkable Nullities, Negative Proofs
		50.1 Hypotheses of Hope amid Nothingness
		50.2 For Itself
		50.3 The Marriage of Consciousness and the Biosphere
		50.4 Scalar Multipliers and Gap Analyses in the Evaluation of Change in Nature
		50.5 Affirming Nature
	Chapter 51: Irrational Biomes
		51.1 Apex Irrationality
		51.2 Lost Upon an Urban Surrealism
	Chapter 52: The Extinction Probability Era
		52.1 Navigating a World of Chance and Uncertainty
		52.2 Probability Theories
		52.3 Divergent Ecological Modeling
		52.4 To Choose, or Not to Choose
	Chapter 53: Non-linear Reciprocity
		53.1 The Crisis of Connectivity
		53.2 Ineluctable Recognitions
		53.3 Languages and Paradigms with Which to Reunite
	Chapter 54: The Unfettered Gaze
		54.1 Dualistic Centralities
		54.2 The Proliferation of Gazes
		54.3 What Do We See?
	Chapter 55: No Equation for It: Numbers with No Attachment
		55.1 From Melancholy to Activism
		55.2 Hope Hastened
		55.3 The Strange Dramas of Human Apperception
	Chapter 56: A Situational Animal Rights Ethic
		56.1 Between Haiti and Socotra
		56.2 The Etiology of Sanctuary
		56.3 The Hotspots Methodology
		56.4 Every Voice
	Chapter 57: The Geography of Contradiction
		57.1 The Anthropology of the Sacred and Profane
		57.2 The Mount Everest Base Camp Syndrome
		57.3 The Contradictions Inherent to the Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra
		57.4 “Compassion Transcendence Strategies”
	Chapter 58: Metaphysical Landscapes
		58.1 The Animals and Landscapes of Vermeer
		58.2 Iterations of Landscape
		58.3 “Even in Arcadia There Am I”
	Chapter 59: Savery’s Castle of Secrets
		59.1 A Painter, an Emperor, a Castle, and a Bird
		59.2 The Minutiae of Suffering
		59.3 The Walter Rothschild Factor
	Chapter 60: Human Cruelty and SARS-CoV-2
		60.1 Human Diet in History
		60.2 Wet Markets
		60.3 Ethics and Epidemiology
Part III: A Natural History of Existentialism
	Chapter 61: Strange Connectors
		61.1 The Search for Henbane upon Mount Athos
		61.2 The Earliest Existentialist Codices
	Chapter 62: The Synecological Conscience
		62.1 On the Hominin Conscience
		62.2 Do We Learn from Our Mistakes?
	Chapter 63: The Ecological Summons of Jain Mathematical Calculations
		63.1 The Mathematics of Non-violence
		63.2 A World of Nigodas and Jivas
	Chapter 64: Fundaments of Observation and Melancholy
		64.1 On the Origins and Novelty of Despair
		64.2 Tragedy and Biology
			64.2.1 The Continuation of a Philosophy
		64.3 The Onrush of a Global Existential Crisis
	Chapter 65: The Great Divergence
		65.1 Mental and Physical Coefficients of Behavioral Distribution Patterns
		65.2 Natural, Unnatural?
		65.3 The Qualifying Task of Mathematics
		65.4 A Colossus of Migraines
		65.5 A Deformative Fixity
	Chapter 66: Mismatches
		66.1 Who Are We?
		66.2 The Earliest Evidence
		66.3 Both
	Chapter 67: True Narcissism
		67.1 Unto a World War III
		67.2 Conceptual Transitions
		67.3 The Historical Amalgam
	Chapter 68: Caesuras of Certainty
		68.1 “Crawling at Your Feet”
		68.2 Circumstances of History
		68.3 What Is Beautiful?
		68.4 An Outcast Species
		68.5 Co-evolution amid Misanthropic Airs
	Chapter 69: The Other
		69.1 The Subjective Case for Biological Verisimilitude
		69.2 The Possibility of a Post-human Renaissance
	Chapter 70: Of Malignant Variables
		70.1 A Distinctly Agitated Preoccupation
		70.2 Biospheric Cul-de-Sacs
		70.3 Misanthropy as Ecological Proxy
	Chapter 71: The Concept of Zero
		71.1 Dimensions of Human Response in the Wake of Its Destructive Patterns
		71.2 Biosemiotic Impulses
	Chapter 72: On the Nature of Equivalencies
		72.1 A Labyrinth Beyond the Equal Sign
		72.2 On the New Nature of Consciousness
		72.3 A Biological Pilgrim’s Progress
	Chapter 73: Metaphorical Realities
		73.1 The Unclouded Mirror
		73.2 Autocatalysis: New Beginnings or Old Endings?
		73.3 Maimonides in Siberia
		73.4 Probabilities from the Cell to Human Behavior
		73.5 Rudiments and Behavior of Ideals
		73.6 Ideations of Nature
	Chapter 74: Ecological Epistemology
		74.1 Feast or Famine Metaphysics
		74.2 The Existential Zero
		74.3 Evolutionary Latitudes
	Chapter 75: The Natural Selection of Indeterminacy
		75.1 Natural Selection Anew
		75.2 Kin Altruistic Superorganisms
	Chapter 76: Imagining Transitions
		76.1 Pivoting Between Paradox and Existential Biology
		76.2 Poets Who Die Young
	Chapter 77: The Finely Honed Basis of Unknowing
		77.1 What We Don’t Know
		77.2 The Implausibility of Denial
		77.3 Converging Factors
		77.4 Merging the Imagination with a Probability Event
		77.5 From a Tired Trigonometry to the Welcoming Co-symbiosis of the Creation
	Chapter 78: The Buddhist Obtuse and Its Ecological Correlates
		78.1 When Conscience Is More Than Conscience
		78.2 A Context for Choice
	Chapter 79: Ecological Emptiness
		79.1 Ecological Depression
		79.2 Paradigmatic Shifts out of the Wasteland
		79.3 Walking Sharks and Superego
		79.4 Unimagined Bias
		79.5 A Tower of Babel as Ecological Inverse
	Chapter 80: Temptational Obscurity That Brings Hope to Life
		80.1 Obscurity and Redemptive Intuition
		80.2 The Elusive Realms of Infinite Possibility
		80.3 A Paean to the Earthworm
		80.4 Moral Auditing
		80.5 Real People, Fictional Populations, and a Semblance of Hope
	Chapter 81: Biological Proxies for the Individual
		81.1 The Natural Selection of an Individual
		81.2 A Continuing Strife
		81.3 The Optimism Paradox
	Chapter 82: Shifting Balance
		82.1 Multiple Scales Within Evolution
		82.2 Hope Begets Faith
	Chapter 83: Comes Crashing Down Upon It
		83.1 Knowing, or, Unknowing?
		83.2 Egocide
		83.3 The Ideal of an Alternative?
		83.4 Unlike Nothingness
	Chapter 84: Systems Paradox
		84.1 Dimensionality and Relevant Specificities (Fig. 84.1)
		84.2 The Ants and the Humans
	Chapter 85: The Final Hermitage of Ideals
		85.1 One Night in a Pub, Nine-Hundred Years Ago
		85.2 Much Like Those Portraits by Hans Holbein the Younger
		85.3 Unless
	Chapter 86: The Paradox of Prayer
		86.1 Confession and Evolution (Fig. 86.1)
		86.2 One Great Supposition: Ecology
	Chapter 87: Forgiveness
		87.1 To Forgive (Fig. 87.1)
		87.2 Deep Ethological Convergence
		87.3 Hope Among Individuals
	Chapter 88: Rebirth
		88.1 Mortality and Cartography
		88.2 To Die For
		88.3 Organic Interiors
	Chapter 89: The Cycle of Alterities
		89.1 Ecosystemic Potentialities
		89.2 The Map of Biological Patterns
		89.3 Substance and the Insubstantiality Hypothesis
	Chapter 90: The Individual and the Circumference
		90.1 The Map of Exiles
		90.2 That Exile Embodied Consciousness
		90.3 Levinas and Buber
	Chapter 91: Non-Linear Ethics
		91.1 Regarding the Conjecture of Ethical Irreversibilities
		91.2 The Endpoints of Pi
	Chapter 92: A Lost Species
		92.1 A Romantically Neglected Dualism
		92.2 Looking Out or Looking In?
		92.3 Old Sagas, Novel Futures
	Chapter 93: Ecological Idealism
		93.1 Constructivist Lives and Deaths
		93.2 The Psychoanalysis of Belief Systems
		93.3 The Geopolitics of Ecological Resolution
	Chapter 94: The Problem of Interdependency
		94.1 The Challenges of Collaboration
		94.2 Single, Large, or Several Small Habitat Refuges?
		94.3 Giacometti’s Unsolved Solitaires
	Chapter 95: A Metaphysics of Naturalism
		95.1 Varieties of Supervenience
		95.2 The Evolution of Solitaires
	Chapter 96: The Phylogenetic Conundrum
		96.1 The Ancestries of Individualism
		96.2 The Poetry of Taxocoenosis
		96.3 Two Embedded and Dialectical Paradigms
		96.4 A Different Kind of Intelligence
		96.5 Contemplating the End
	Chapter 97: The Biosphere Beyond Humanity
		97.1 To Seize the Day
		97.2 Anna
		97.3 Scintilla Conscientiae
	Chapter 98: The Anthropic Syllogism
		98.1 Apocalyptic Underpinnings
		98.2 In the Shadows of Our Kind?
		98.3 The Paradoxes of Pain and Cruelty
	Chapter 99: The Last Island
		99.1 Cantos of a Lost Paradise
		99.2 Dante Among the Andamans
		99.3 The Last Island
		99.4 Ultimate Metaphors
	Chapter 100: Coda: Liberation Ecosynthesis
		100.1 Humanity’s Looming Sense of Itself
		100.2 Transcending Maelstrom
		100.3 Rejoining the Biological Commons
		100.4 Ecosynthesis
Index