NNSU n.a. N.I Lobachevsky, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, korvet_nn@list.ru.
The article deals with the modern state of ecocriticism (environmental criticism) aimed at rethinking human-environment relations taking into account current changes in social science. Those changes are connected with the release of objects from the power of “projection”, mind representation. The most influential in the field are the works of F. Guattari, G. Harmann, B. Latour, etc. By applying those concepts we release the environment from the privileged view of the Human, which results in the emergence of the non-human ecology. The paper highlights the following issues: 1. How can we define non-human ecology and how is it different from more traditional concepts? 2. What principles does it rest upon and what does the application of these principles result in for philosophy (G. Harmann’s ontology is taken as a methodological basis)? 3. What are the possible impact and implications of object ontology for the rethinking of human-environment relations (works of composer J.L. Adams are taken as an example. He applies highlighted principles of this ontology in his music)? To sum up, this approach finds it implementation in modern art which broadens the concept of environment up to the merging of nature, technology and art into an integral whole and removes the importance of form (in analyzed examples form is given either by mathematical structure or operational mechanism of getting pink noise).
ecocriticism; instrument-being; object; object-oriented ontology; environment
Download textFor citing: Shatalov-Davydov D.Yu. Non-human ecology: Ecocriticism and new object ontology. Human being: Image and essence. Humanitarian aspects. Мoscow, 2019. Vol. 4(39): Khlebnikov, G., Granin, R. (eds.) 21st century, Worldview: Utopia or Dystopia?, pp. 96-112. DOI: 10.31249/chel/2019.04.00