Economy and Ecology:

Reconceiving the Human Relationship to Nature

In Telos 190, we examine how the intimate connection between economy and ecology has been overlooked in favor of a perspective that sees nature not as its own actor but simply as inert raw material for our human purposes, as if our economic decisions have no effect on our relationship to nature. Yet nature never was and never can be simply a set of things, inorganic material for our desires. The project of the essays in this issue is to challenge this perspective and to propose new models for understanding the complex relationship between human beings, nature, and the economy.

Introduction
David Pan

The Descent into Disanthropy: Critical Theory and the Anthropocene
Andrew Reszitnyk

Practice and Ideology in Boris Hessen's "The Social and Economic Roots of Newton’s Principia"
Sean Winkler

Scientific Modeling and the Environment: Toward the Establishment of Michel Serres’s Natural Contract
Pamela Carralero

Metaphors in Science: Lessons for Developing an Ecological Paradigm
Aaron Grinter

Reading against the Gun: The Machine Gun and Sturm
Ross Etherton

The Old in New Critical Theory: Locating the Gambler and the Prostitute in the Image of Neoliberalism
Joseph Weiss

The Dionysian Free Jazz of John W. Coltrane
Dharmender S. Dhillon

Terrors of Theory: Critical Theory of Terror from Kojève to Žižek
Arthur Bradley

Critical Theory of the Contemporary

The Post-Liberal Moment
Adrian Pabst

The Aesthetics of Fascism
Jay A. Gupta

The Gun Sanctuary Movement: Pistol-Packing Preppers or Passionate Peaceful Populists?
Timothy W. Luke

Reviews

"Apophatic Entanglement" and the Politics of Unknowing: Catherine Keller
Andrew M. Wender