Agency at the Time of the Anthropocene

Among the many problems raised by political ecology is one of language. The distribution between what is inert object and what is made of talking subjects does not do justice to science nor to literature—nor, of course, to politics. Hence, an effort to describe a relation with agency that focuses no...

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Published inNew literary history Vol. 45; no. 1; pp. 1 - 18
Main Author Latour, Bruno
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Baltimore The Johns Hopkins University Press 01.12.2014
Johns Hopkins University Press
Subjects
Brecht, Bertolt (1898-1956)
Contracts
Earth
Ecology, Agency, Entanglement
Environment and Society
Environmental Sciences
German literature
Humanity
Humans
Nature
Novelists
Objectivity
Politics
Receptors
Science
Scientists
Semiotics
Studies
Theater
political ecology
language
facts of nature
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Summary:Among the many problems raised by political ecology is one of language. The distribution between what is inert object and what is made of talking subjects does not do justice to science nor to literature—nor, of course, to politics. Hence, an effort to describe a relation with agency that focuses not on their characters (humans or nonhumans, animated or deanimated) but rather on their common source. This source is recognized here—both semiotically and then ontologically—as a “metaphorphic zone.” It is just such a common articulation that could allow speaking with and about former “facts of nature” in a different way, a way better adjusted to the new political situation.
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ISSN:0028-6087
1080-661X
1080-661X
DOI:10.1353/nlh.2014.0003