Ecopsychoanalysis and climate psychology

Climate change and the ecological crisis in general are increasingly recognized as perhaps the single biggest threat to have faced our species, but existing approaches largely constitute an 'ecology without psychology'. This chapters gives an overview of the development of ecopsychoanalysis, a new transdisciplinary approach to thinking about the relationship between psychoanalysis, ecology, 'the natural' and the problem of climate change, as well as viral pandemics such as COVID-19. It draws on a range of Felds including, psychoanalysis, psychology, ecology, philosophy, science, complexity theory, aesthetics and the humanities. To do this, it is important to identify the different developmental lines and research traditions out of which ecopsychoanalysis is emerging. These include psychoanalysis first and foremost, but also ecopsychology and ecological thinking more generally;cybernetics and systems theory beginning with Gregory Bateson;complexity theory and nonlinear dynamics;philosophical approaches to nature from deep ecology to post-nature and the new materialisms;postmodern and posthuman understandings of animality, human and nonhuman;the work of the Climate Psychology Alliance;and the geophilosophy of Deleuze and Guattari. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)

Transcending Socio-Ecological Crisis by Means of the State or Revolution?

The exacerbated socio-ecological crisis, including the devastating COVID-19 pandemic during the last few years, has given rise to a variety of interpretations and strategies to face this crisis. Some researchers have suggested that the state is the single most effective agent capable of mobilizing the amount of resources and the policies required to overcome a crisis of such a broad scope and devastating impact. This paper analyzes the causes of the multifaceted and deepening socio-ecological crisis to show that the root cause behind this crisis is the capitalist mode of production itself. Subsequently, I interrogate those approaches proposing the state as a strategic mechanism to combat and overcome the crisis. It is outlined that the class-based (non-neutral) character of the state will tend to reproduce the prevailing capitalist relations of production, namely the basic conditions for the generation and exacerbation of this crisis. As is finally suggested, it is only with a revolutionary transformation of society that the working social majority will be able to radically undo the fundamental causes of the crisis and create the conditions for a peaceful and sustainable development on a planetary level. © 2023 The Center for Political Ecology.

Paralipomena of a Pandemic

The pandemic, which has affected the whole world and has many victims, changing our lifestyle and having its own narrative structure that would be interesting to retrace. Undoubtedly, despite science fiction getting us used to dystopian and apocalyptic scenarios, the sudden epidemiological emergency caught us unprepared. We could hardly have thought of suddenly giving up habits that we considered consolidated, such as being able to travel, meet friends, gather in public places, go to a restaurant, go to school. The pandemic suddenly cancelled all of this. But what caused this pandemic? Perhaps a simple virus from an Asian wet market? Perhaps the extreme connectivity of the human network? Perhaps the ecological alterations we have caused? Or is the pandemic the result of a deeper cultural crisis?

The algorithm of nature in the age of global health and environmental crisis

The London-based multimedia artist Lisa Chang Lee, born in Beijing, China, is a representative example of exploring alternative identification in the context of the global health and environmental crisis. The conversation focuses on her artistic experiments with algorithms and digital technologies to transcend established norms of 'Chineseness' culturally and artistically. Gao Shiyu will investigate Lee's projects to question the binary distinctions between humans and non-humans, nature and culture, the East and the West. The discussion intends to show a shift in the new generation of diasporic Chinese artists' creative practices and challenge the tendency in contemporary Chinese art criticism that locates these works in large-scale, systemic and political ways.

Pandemic and the Nature-Alienated Self

This consideration of COVID-19 places the pandemic in the larger context of our present-day ontology and the environmentally destructive human–nature relationship that characterizes it, exploring it in three parts. First, it sets out the problematic conceptualization of nature in the modern social imaginary by focusing upon the self in terms of its sense of identity, agency and authority. Second, it sets out how the pandemic fundamentally disrupts these three facets of the self in terms of the fragilization of economic values, the notion of unique human agency, and the limitation of the authority of discursive reason. Finally, it concludes by outlining the opportunity for a renewed relationship with nature by proposing the recovery of the premodern concepts of metaphysical participation, teleology, and rational intuition. In doing so, the pandemic crisis is considered in the wider context of the ecological crisis of the modern age, and as an opportunity for rethinking our collective concept of nature, and the place of our selves within it. [ FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Religions is the property of MDPI and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)

Reconstructive Agriculture as a Mechanism for Environmental Crisis Management and Epidemic Prevention: Technologies and Project Activities

This chapter describes the perspectives of the development of reconstructive agriculture, which advantages are the reconstruction of lands (an increase of soil fertility) and reverse change (reconstruction) of climate, which, in their totality, stimulates the growth of efficiency in agriculture. Reconstructive agriculture is considered from a new perspective—from a position of ecological crisis management and prevention of epidemics (by the example of the COVID-19 pandemic). For this, the authors determine countries practising reconstructive agriculture and find the specific features of the preservation of biodiversity and the process of the COVID-19 pandemic in these countries. The information and empirical basis of the research are the materials of the dataset “COVID-19 and the 2020 crisis: capabilities of health care and consequences for economy and business around the world” (https://iscvolga.ru/dataset-crisis-2020 ) and materials of the dataset “Big data for digital monitoring of biodiversity, agriculture and food security – 2020” (https://iscvolga.ru/dataset-bioobrazovanie ). The authors consider perspective technologies and successful projects in the sphere of reconstructive agriculture and analyse their contribution to ecological crisis management and the fight against COVID-19. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.

Necessary post - pandemic economies

The current situation that humanity is experiencing is unsustainable;between economic and social phenomena and the current health crisis, caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The present article aims to argue the emergence of new economic knowledge in the current critical situation of the conventional economy and the social reality caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. We proceeded with the compilation of information and the relevance of the dominant economic paradigm for the functioning of society in current conditions was analyzed, arriving at general considerations about the need to base a new economic knowledge based on the principles and emerging categories of various areas of economic knowledge that have gained space and academic recognition from the middle of the 20th century.

The Appointment in Samarra: A New Use for Some Old Jokes.

The coronavirus epidemic is not just a biological phenomenon which affects humans: it is also a moment of a profound global and ecological crisis that includes many human and nonhuman actors. To confront the crisis, a radical philosophical change is needed, which penetrates to natural, economic, and cultural processes. The amassing of dictatorial powers of state apparatuses evoked by the pandemic highlights their basic impotence and the fact that the system as we know it cannot continue in its existing liberal-permissive form. While the final outcome is uncertain what is most probable is that a new barbarian capitalism will prevail: many old and weak will be sacrificed and let to die, workers will have to accept much lower standards of living, digital control of our lives will remain a permanent feature, and class distinctions will become much more than now a matter of life and death.