Why Gaia is not a God of Totality

Latour, Bruno

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“…Now Gaia has returned, however, albeit under different conditions, as Bruno Latour (2011Latour ( /2015 argues, emphasising how Gaia is different from "Nature of the olden days" (M 1 ). Notwithstanding resistance from scientists, who consider the Gaia-hypothesis "unscientific" (M 2 ), Gaia has become a scientific concept (Latour 2017). Geology became "Gaialogy,"-a convergence of quantification and holism: a third moment, dialectically speaking (M 3 ).…”

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Iconoclasm and Imagination: Gaston Bachelard’s Philosophy of Technoscience

Zwart

2019

Hum Stud

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Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962 occupies a unique position in the history of European thinking. As a philosopher of science, he developed a profound interest in genres of the imagination, notably poetry and novels. While emphatically acknowledging the strength, precision and reliability of scientific knowledge compared to every-day experience, he saw literary phantasies as important supplementary sources of insight. Although he significantly influenced authors such as Lacan, Althusser, Foucault and others, while some of his key concepts ("epistemological rupture," "epistemological obstacle," "technoscience") are still widely used, his oeuvre tends to be overlooked. And yet, as I will argue, Bachelard's extended series of books opens up an intriguing perspective on contemporary science. First, I will point to a remarkable duality that runs through Bachelard's oeuvre. His philosophy of science consists of two suboeuvres: a psychoanalysis of technoscience, complemented by a poetics of elementary imagination. I will point out how these two branches deal with complementary themes: technoscientific artefacts and literary fictions, two realms of human experience separated by an epistemological rupture. Whereas Bachelard's work initially entails a panegyric in praise of scientific practice, he becomes increasingly intrigued by the imaginary and its basic images ("archetypes"), such as the Mother Earth archetype.

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Section: Concluding Remarks: Iconoclasm and Imagination As A Dialectimentioning

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Iconoclasm and Imagination: Gaston Bachelard’s Philosophy of Technoscience

Zwart

2019

Hum Stud

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“…Er tut dies mit tiefer Skepsis gegenüber kybernetischerdsystemischer Logik. Die These einer hyperactive Gaia -"(T)he first totally non-providential and non-holistic version of what it is to compose a whole" (Latour, 2017b:69) -gerät so zum Gegenentwurf der globalisierenden (und damit totalisierenden) Großthese der Geokraten von einem stale Anthropozän. 2…”

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Integrative Geographie neu denken – z.B. anthropozänisch

Geist

2018

Geogr. Helv.

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Kurzfassung. Current efforts to formalize the Anthropocene as a new geologic epoch have relaunched deliberations concerning the re/unification of human and physical geography. This commentary notes the end of traditional (dualist) human-environmental thinking and welcomes a vital pluralism of alternative approaches including gaia-politics. Thus, it recommends to challenge and reject the hegemony of a geoscientists' (geocratic) narrative. Still valid is the provocation by French philosopher Latour that the historical failure of the discipline to achieve convergence will very likely leave geography as it is, ie. divided into separate disciplines.

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“…Bennet 2010; Ingold 2011), relational ontologies (e.g. Law and Mol 2011;Latour 2016), and other more-than-human approaches (e.g. Braun 2008;Hinchliffe 2008;Lorimer 2012).…”

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Valuing Species: The Continuities between Non-Market and Market Valuations in Biodiversity Conservation

Fredriksen

2017

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This article explores how the rise of new markets for biodiversity has been facilitated by existing, non-market-based valuation practices within the field of biodiversity conservation. Where others have considered biodiversity markets in terms of capitalist and/or neoliberal expansion, I argue that the abstraction of the value of living things in markets is made easier by the existing valuation practices of species-based biodiversity conservation. After briefly contextualising the terms 'species' and 'biodiversity' within the history of Western conservation, the article shows how biodiversity conservation-as science, policy and practice-subordinates the value of individual living organisms and emplaced ecologies to the abstract categories of species and habitat types. This conceptual move performs a condition of ethical commensurability between individual organisms and places, thereby prefiguring the equivalence of value between units of the same category needed to establish new markets for biodiversity. The article considers this link between the valuation practices of species-based biodiversity conservation and new markets for biodiversity as an instance of performative continuity. The article concludes by reflecting on the critical use of attending to the links between existing valuation practices in biodiversity conservation and new biodiversity markets.

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Why Gaia is not a God of Totality

Cited by 53 publications

References 12 publications

Iconoclasm and Imagination: Gaston Bachelard’s Philosophy of Technoscience

Iconoclasm and Imagination: Gaston Bachelard’s Philosophy of Technoscience

Integrative Geographie neu denken – z.B. anthropozänisch

Valuing Species: The Continuities between Non-Market and Market Valuations in Biodiversity Conservation

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