Ô mes amis, il n’y a nul amy. Les nôtres peuplent le désert

Vivien Giet; Erwan Lesage

doi:10.13135/2385-1945/6221

Vivien Giet University of Namur
Erwan Lesage Institut des études politiques de Rennes

DOI: https://doi.org/10.13135/2385-1945/6221

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 transforming 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.

Author Biographies

Vivien Giet, University of Namur

Vivien Giet is a PhD student in philosophy at UNamur and Paris 8. His research focuses on historical materialism and the question of the virtual in Gilles Deleuze’s and Walter Benjamin’s philosophy.

Erwan Lesage, Institut des études politiques de Rennes

Erwan Lesage is a certified teacher of philosophy. He holds a Master degree from the Institut des études politiques de Rennes and from Paris 7 in sociology and political philosophy. Taking Deleuze and Guattari’s work as a starting point, he is preparing a research project that analyses the forms of authoritarian subjectivation in the age of neoliberal capitalism.

'Ô mes amis, il n’y a nul amy'. Ours Populate the Desert

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Author Biographies