Nature-Life Fusion Through Deleuzian-Guattarian Posthumanism
Abstract
This article aims to analyze a theoretical reconceptualization of the materiality of nature. To this end, this study raises two political problems of nature, specifically as a concept. The first problem is the modern concept of nature, which depicts its materiality as a mechanical concept, resulting in the domination of nature. On the other hand, the second problem is the postmodern concept of nature, which presents its materiality as a function of discourse. In this respect, there is no nature; it is political. This article presents an antidote derived from a critical posthumanist perspective based on the works of Deleuze and Guattari, Capitalism and Schizophrenia. In this context, I advocate a new materiality of nature that constitutes an ethics of immanence and sees nature as a process of life production from the posthumanist approach. Nature is a plane where all life emerges, representing a dynamic production process.
Keywords
The Concept of Nature, Materiality, Posthumanism, Deleuze and Guattari, The Ethics of Immanence
Ethical Statement
Ethics committee approval was not required for this article.
Thanks
This article has been derived from Özgür BOZAN’s ongoing PhD dissertation at Istanbul Technical University, Department of Political Studies, Political and Social Thought PhD Program.
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