The Echological Disaster: The Primal Scene of ‘Nature’ in Blanchot

If, following Timothy Clark, thinking ecology or nature with Blanchot entails the paradox of thinking the impossible, thinking it otherwise than simply surrendering to contradiction by way of abandonment of the question, then how might such a ‘thought’, per impossible, reflect itself in and to thinking? To better explore this paradox and its demand, this article proposes the distantiated manner of an echological thought which approaches nature, and the approach to nature, qua impossible, by means of its only ever exposing an echo of an absence in the place of origin. This article argues that it is therefore only in tracing the echo-effect of ‘nature’ that one might begin to undertake the questioning of a relation between the writings and thought of Blanchot and ecological thought which would be more than (simply) negative.