ABSTRACT
This chapter discovers that what ecology names is an open-ended structure without centre or edge. But ecology just is about everything, and how everything is interconnected: trees, telephone poles, foxes, toxic waste and cancer cells. There is no way to demarcate what concerns ecology in advance. Evidently the uncanny applies to the notion of ecology as such, because the term ecology involves the Greek oikos. The concept of Nature is in the sense the diametrical opposite of ecology. The chapter argues that he needs ecology without Nature. He shall close by summarising the recent argument of Nicholas Royle, in his deconstructive book Veering. It is not so easy to draw a dotted line between the physical and the semiotic. Such lines are nowhere to be found on the surfaces of frogs, poems, clouds and permafrost. Yet since Plato, as Heidegger and Derrida explored, Western philosophy has been in the business of trying to find these dotted lines.
