The Real Nature of an Ecology of Separation

Abstract

Neyrat begins to lay out his proposal for an ecology of separation that does not simply embrace the positions of deep ecology or of eco-constructivism whereby everything is interconnected. Neyrat proposes to provide an alternative ecology that would allow for the necessary distance within the interconnectedness of things so as to exit the failure of the “Spinozist cure” and also allow for humans to not forget or repress, but rather to recognize and provide a place for an ecology of separation that recognizes that nature does indeed exist. An ecology of separation thereby counters what he names this “transcendental narcissism”— the replacement of nature by humanity (Anthropocene), and humanity’s translation into an over-arching conception of technology.