Levi R. Bryant is Professor of Philosophy at Collin College outside of Dallas, Texas. He is the author of Difference and Givenness: Deleuze’s Transcendental Empiricism and the Ontology of Immanence (Northwestern University Press, 2008), The Democracy of Objects (Open Humanities Press, 2011), and co-edited The Speculative Turn: Continental Materialism and Realism (Re.Press, 2011). He has written widely on Lacan, Deleuze, Badiou, Žižek, speculative realism, and object-oriented ontology.

This book finally rescues materialism from the dilution of social historical theory. But rather than rejecting the lessons of Marxism, Bryant substantially extends the material underpinnings of life. Lucid, far-reaching, and urgent, Onto-Cartographies is the book many object-oriented ontology skeptics have been waiting for.

• Acknowledgments; Introduction: For a Renewal of Materialism; Part I. Machines; 1. Towards a Posthuman Media Ecology; 1.1. Common Prejudices About Machines; 1.2. Varieties of Machines; 1.3. Posthuman Media Ecology; 2. What is a Machine?; 2.1. Machines Operate; 2.2. Machines are Split Between Their Powers and Products; 2.3. Machines are Binary Machines: Trans-Corporeality; 3. Alien Phenomenology; 3.1. Machines are Structurally Open and Operationally Closed; 3.2. Alien Phenomenology, Second-Order Observation, and Post-Vitalist Ethology; 4. Machinic Assemblages and Entropy; 4.1. Machinic Assemblages; 4.2. Assemblages and Individuals; 4.3. Extended Minds and Bodies; 4.4. Entropy; Part II: Worlds; 5.; The Structure of Worlds; 5.1. Ecologies of Worlds; 5.2. Content and Expression; 6. Topologies of Time and Space; 6.1. Space; 6.2. Time; 6.3. Overdetermination; 7. Gravity; 7.1. The Gravity of Things; 7.2. Gravitational Relations Between Machines: The Objects; 7.3. Subjects, Quasi-Objects, and Catalysis; 7.4. Happenings and Events; 8. Earth, Maps, and Practices; 8.1. Geophilosophy: A Revised Concept of Nature; 8.2. The Three Dimensions of Geophilosophy: Cartography, Deconstruction, and Terraformation; Conclusion; References.

Levi R. Bryant is Professor of Philosophy at Collin College outside of Dallas, Texas. He is the author of Difference and Givenness: Deleuze’s Transcendental Empiricism and the Ontology of Immanence (Northwestern University Press, 2008), The Democracy of Objects (Open Humanities Press, 2011), and co-edited The Speculative Turn: Continental Materialism and Realism (Re.Press, 2011). He has written widely on Lacan, Deleuze, Badiou, Žižek, speculative realism, and object-oriented ontology.

This book finally rescues materialism from the dilution of social historical theory. But rather than rejecting the lessons of Marxism, Bryant substantially extends the material underpinnings of life. Lucid, far-reaching, and urgent, Onto-Cartographies is the book many object-oriented ontology skeptics have been waiting for.

• Acknowledgments; Introduction: For a Renewal of Materialism; Part I. Machines; 1. Towards a Posthuman Media Ecology; 1.1. Common Prejudices About Machines; 1.2. Varieties of Machines; 1.3. Posthuman Media Ecology; 2. What is a Machine?; 2.1. Machines Operate; 2.2. Machines are Split Between Their Powers and Products; 2.3. Machines are Binary Machines: Trans-Corporeality; 3. Alien Phenomenology; 3.1. Machines are Structurally Open and Operationally Closed; 3.2. Alien Phenomenology, Second-Order Observation, and Post-Vitalist Ethology; 4. Machinic Assemblages and Entropy; 4.1. Machinic Assemblages; 4.2. Assemblages and Individuals; 4.3. Extended Minds and Bodies; 4.4. Entropy; Part II: Worlds; 5.; The Structure of Worlds; 5.1. Ecologies of Worlds; 5.2. Content and Expression; 6. Topologies of Time and Space; 6.1. Space; 6.2. Time; 6.3. Overdetermination; 7. Gravity; 7.1. The Gravity of Things; 7.2. Gravitational Relations Between Machines: The Objects; 7.3. Subjects, Quasi-Objects, and Catalysis; 7.4. Happenings and Events; 8. Earth, Maps, and Practices; 8.1. Geophilosophy: A Revised Concept of Nature; 8.2. The Three Dimensions of Geophilosophy: Cartography, Deconstruction, and Terraformation; Conclusion; References.