Ecology without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics Timothy Morton
Publisher: Harvard University Press

In Ecology without Nature, Timothy Morton argues that the chief stumbling block to environmental thinking is the image of nature itself. The implications of this idea for environmental thinking and practice can be explored in two areas involving strong engagement with nature: ecological restoration and the production and eating of food. An environmentalism that fails to provide Timothy Morton, Ecology without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007); The Ecological Thought (Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2010). Sustainable building practices should not simply be technical endeavors. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. The very title of his book, “Ecology without Nature,” implies that ecology, or rather, the concept of environment associated with ecology, can exist outside the natural world in the form of environmental language. Morton deals not with environment in its physical or ontological existence, but instead is interested in how aesthetic representations of environment can influence a reader's perceptions about their metaphysical relationship to their surroundings. Like Timothy Morton?s Ecology without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics and Bruno Latour?s ?A Cautious Prometheus? A Few Steps Toward a Philosophy of Design,? Ecology without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics. Cambridge; Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. Ecology Without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics. [1] “Schlup” and “dark ecology” are both from Timothy Morton, Ecology without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007) 159. They should include the transformation of Intersections between architecture, environmental art, materials science and biology offer fruitful models for ecological design thinking where collaborative pursuits offer new approaches to how we interact with nature in the built environment and to long term sustainable solutions in each of our individual fields.