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## An investigation of how material agencies structure social and ecological relations * **[Read and download the introduction of __Onto-Cartography__ for free now (pdf)](%7B%7Bmedia%20url=)** * **[**Read a Q&A between the author, Levi Bryant, and Speculative Realism series editor Graham Harman (pdf)**](http://www.euppublishing.com/userimages/ContentEditor/1396275575603/Onto-Cartography%20-%20Author%20Q%26A.pdf)** **__Onto-Cartography__** gives an unapologetic defense of naturalism and materialism, transforming these familiar positions and showing how culture itself is formed by nature. Bryant endorses a pan-ecological theory of being, arguing that societies are ecosystems that can only be understood by considering nonhuman material agencies such as rivers and mountain ranges alongside signifying agencies such as discourses, narratives, and ideologies. In this way, Bryant lays the foundations for a new machine-oriented ontology. This theoretically omnivorous work draws on disciplines as diverse as deconstruction, psychoanalysis, Marxism, media studies, object-oriented ontology, the new materialist feminisms, actor-network theory, biology, and sociology. Through its fresh attention

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Author

Levi R. Bryant

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780748679980

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Philosophy, Physics