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Why Gaia is not a God of Totality
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Biology and politics have always been permeable to one another, trading metaphors back and forth as mentioned in this paper. This is nowhere more blatant than when people claim to talk about "the planet" as a whole.Abstract:
Biology and politics have always been permeable to one another, trading metaphors back and forth. This is nowhere more blatant than when people claim to talk about ‘the planet’ as a whole. James Lo...read more
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Bruno Latour, The pasteurization of France , trans. Alan Sheridan and John Law, Cambridge, Mass., and London, Harvard University Press, 1988, 8vo, pp. 273, £23.95. - Georges Canguilhem, Ideology and rationality in the history of the life sciences , trans. Arthur Goldhammer, Cambridge, Mass., and London, The MIT Press, 1988, 8vo, pp. xi, 160, £17.95.
TL;DR: The Pasteurization of France can be viewed as a battle, with its field and its myriad contestants, in which opposing sides attempted to mould and coerce various forces of resistance.
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Geosocial Formations and the Anthropocene
Nigel Clark,Kathryn Yusoff +1 more
TL;DR: For at least two centuries most social thought has taken the earth to be the stable platform upon which dynamic social processes play out as discussed by the authors, and most social thinkers take the earth as a stable platform for dynamic social process play out.
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Interrupting the Anthropo-obScene: Immuno-biopolitics and Depoliticizing Ontologies in the Anthropocene
Erik Swyngedouw,Henrik Ernstson +1 more
TL;DR: The authors argue that the Anthropocene is a deeply depoliticizing notion, which de-politicization unfolds through the creation of a set of narratives, what they refer to as "AnthropoScenes" which are then used to describe the evolution of the world.
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Giving depth to the surface: An exercise in the Gaia-graphy of critical zones:
TL;DR: The importance of soil and more generally the surface of the Earth remains very difficult as long as the usual planetary view, family view, and planetary view dominate the view of the world as discussed by the authors.
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On Models and Examples: Engineers and Bricoleurs in the Anthropocene
TL;DR: In this article, a heuristic distinction between "model" and "example" modes of articulating thought and action in the Anthropocene has been made, based on the Geertzian sense of "model-for".
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Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the difficulty of being an ANT and the difficulties of tracing the social networks of a social network and how to re-trace the social network.
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Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
TL;DR: In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway as discussed by the authors offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth and all its inhabitants, instead of referring to our current epoch as the Anthropocene, instead conceptualizing it as what she calls the Chthulucene, as it more aptly and fully describes our epoch as one in which the human and nonhuman are inextricably linked in tentacular practices.