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The second thread from dark ecology, by timothy morton published on apr, 2016 read an excerpt from the second thread to dark ecology. Philosophy and ecology after the end of the world 20. May 08, 2010 timothy mortons ecology without nature is a fairly disappointing text. Steeped in philosophical and literary history, ecology without nature is a profoundly convinced and convincing intervention, calling as it does for a more intellectually robust and politically supple environmentalism, one much better suited. Thought harvard, 2010, ecology without nature harvard, 2007, eight. We are interested in the best research from across the fields of ecology and evolutionary biology. Timothy morton is rita shea guffey chair in english at rice university. Watson, north carolina state university with the ecological thoughtlets call it ettimothy morton offers a prequel to his more programmatic engagement with ecocriticism, ecology without.