"Gaia Politics, Critique, and the "Planetary Imaginary
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5000429 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Danielle Sands (0000-0002-7443-6216, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 104-121 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | SubStance (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0049-2426 • E-ISSN: 1527-2095 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/sub.2020.0022 |
| OpenAlex | W3099766561 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
In this article, I examine Bruno Latour and Isabelle Stengers’s recent writings on Gaia, the mythological goddess repurposed in the 1970s by James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis as geobiological trope. I assess their claims that Gaia facilitates non-modern thinking (Latour) or short-circuits the anthropocentrism of Anthropocene vocabularies (Stengers), and represents an alternative to critique, which, they argue, confines us to the problematic legacies of modernity. Situating their work alongside contemporary “postcritical” thinkers, I challenge their accounts of critique, arguing that a future-oriented model of critique is compatible with their aims and can be used to inform a more reflective understanding of Gaia
Anthropocene · Anthropocentrism · Art · Dystopia · Environmental ethics · Episteme · Epistemology · Literature · Modernity · Mythology · Perspectivism · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · The Imaginary · Trope (literature) · Earth Systems and Cosmic Evolution · Law · Philosophy · Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
| Citations per year | 0.75 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2024 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |