Abstract
The concept of “attachment to the Earth” is encountering a growing success in the field of political ecology. It has been particularly invested by Bruno Latour who tries to change our perspective on ecological struggles by using and trans-forming Schmittian arguments to apprehend territoriality, social classes, friendship and enmity. For Latour, ecology is a matter of delineating a new “nomos of the Earth”. We argue that, in this movement, his concept of “Gaia” as a network of relations loses its emphasis on multiplicity. Latour seeks to build a hegemony with this new political attractor. We show that this strategy is both in principle and in practice aporetical. Hence, against Latour, we set up the lineaments of a politics of multiplicities between Pierre Clastres, Gilles Deleuze and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro.
Translated title of the contribution | Ô mes amis, il n’y a nul amy'. Ours Populate the Desert |
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Original language | French |
Pages (from-to) | 133-147 |
Number of pages | 15 |
Journal | Philosophy Kitchen |
Volume | 2021 |
Issue number | 15 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 15 Oct 2021 |