Agency at the Time of the Anthropocene

• Published in: New literary history Vol. 45; no. 1; pp. 1 - 18
• Main Author: Latour, Bruno
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• 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

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...