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Título: COSMOPOLITICS OF THE EARTH: MODES OF EXISTENCE AND RESISTANCE IN THE ANTHROPOCENE
Autor: ALYNE DE CASTRO COSTA
Colaborador(es): DEBORAH DANOWSKI - Orientador
Catalogação: 18/FEV/2020 Língua(s): PORTUGUESE - BRAZIL
Tipo: TEXT Subtipo: THESIS Prêmio Capes de Tese - Edição 2020 - CAPES
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Referência(s): [pt] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=46900&idi=1
[en] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=46900&idi=2
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17771/PUCRio.acad.46900
Resumo:
This thesis aims to investigate, from a philosophical standpoint, possible ways of thinking about what it means to resist in the so-called ecological crisis - that is, the severe anthropogenic changes to Earth s biogeochemical cycles that pushed the planet into a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. This crisis calls into question the very validity of the main categories that structure what we call western epistemology – which, according to Bruno Latour (1994), is characterized by the distribution of all beings into two (and only two) modes of existence, i.e., either as natural or as cultural entities. Therefore, in order to investigate different manners of resisting, we suggest that it is crucial to consider the particular ways in which other ontologies conceive the beings that inhabit the world, as well as how they describe the processes and interferences that threaten to destroy it. Another reason why we need to adopt this ontological pluralism is that, as this thesis aims to demonstrate, the Earth can be understood as a common ground which exists only through the diverging versions of itself. The unity that constitutes this common ground, however, requires a careful labour of composition: it was precisely an attempt at fabricating a common world whithout this composition that unleashed the current war of worlds (Latour, 2002) that the ecological crisis makes inescapable. Thus (still keeping to Latour s terminology), on one side of this war, stand the Humans - those who, by presuming to possess the definitive knowledge over objective reality, have all along claimed their right to unscrupulously exploit the natural beings (as well as other human beings), thus leading us to the present situation of ecological disorder. On the other side stand the Earthbound, those peoples who consider the Earth and its beings as their true allies in existence, rather than just an infinite source of materials to exploit. This thesis outlines a panorama - a non-exhaustive and, to a large extent, speculative one - of the multiple Earthbound modes of existence and resistance, which provides a glimpse of the possible (cosmo)political uprisings of the Earth and its peoples against the eco-political barbarism ahead.
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