Guillaume BLANC, L’invention du colonialisme vert. Pour en finir avec le mythe de l’Éden africain , Paris, Flammarion, 2022, 356 p

While the ecological crisis is usually presented as a confrontation between mankind and nature, there remains a third term that is imperative to keep in mind: technology, whose decisive importance André Leroi-Gourhan had shown for the species history. Technology appears as made up of two fronts, which must be considered jointly: mediation with nature (the external environment), and mediation with humans themselves (the zoological body), whose sensitive insertion is modified. Two questions arise, relative to each of these fronts: with regard to nature, can the species succeed in a global and techno-scientific mode what it had historically succeeded in a local and dialectical mode? And with regard to humans, can the eviction of traditional cultures entailed by technical development maintain the species’ capacity of long-term orientation

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