Responsibility Towards Life in the Early Anthropocene
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3774473 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul Alberts (Western Sydney University) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 5-17 |
| Publication date | 2011-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Angelaki (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0969-725X • E-ISSN: 1469-2899 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0969725x.2011.641341 |
| OpenAlex | W1585245244 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 24 |
The Anthropocene, just established as a particular geophysical state, challenges us to critically reconsider normative responsibility towards life, human and non-human, as the scale of potential global disruption becomes apparent. The characteristics it reveals, of our technically interlocked condition now with non-human nature, the problems of uncertainty and human exceptionalism suggest that currently influential positions, those of Hans Jonas and Michel Foucault, are both useful for understanding the political ontology of human life, but only offer partial perspectives towards better responsibility. A critical program of rereading Foucault's genealogical account reveals the usefulness of a biopolitical perspective, but also its limitations, and the need to redevelop its framework to include non-human species in order then to appropriately confront the emerging crisis of the Anthropocene
Anthropocene · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Exceptionalism · Human life · Humanity · Michel foucault · Normative · Ontology · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Politics · Posthuman · Sociology · State (computer science · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Law · Philosophy
The good state, from a cosmic point of view
Space tourism in the Anthropocene
Ambivalent Characters and Fragmented Poetics in Anthropocene Literature
Indigenous Onto-Epistemologies and Pedagogies of Care and Affect in Aotearoa
Unfree Radicals
Political materials
Security cosmopolitanism
Democratic distinctiveness, responsibility, and the politics of ethics in justifications of war
The geology of mankind? A critique of the Anthropocene narrative
The Anthropocene and the Environmental Humanities
Understanding humans in the Anthropocene
Wetland Farming and the Early Anthropocene
Contesting Earth’s Future
The Economics of Climate Change
Are we now living in the Anthropocene
A Perfect Moral Storm
The New World of the Anthropocene
The “Anthropocene”
Discipline and Punish
Nietzsche's Animal Philosophy
Homo Sacer
Foucault, Michel . Abnormal
Michel Foucault , Security, Territory, Population
A Core Precautionary Principle
Global climate science, uncertainty and politics
Environmental issues
The Metaphysical Implications of Ecology
Struggling with human exemptionalism
Apparatuses of Animality
The Anthropocene
The Climate of History
| Citations per year | 0.86 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2021 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |