Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy
uses the epistemological myth of a nature “that imposes itself of its own accord”; it is good sense that speaks of “striking sel ...
gaging in political ecology and not engaging in it. By refusing to en- gage in it, we would be accepting the strangest of all po ...
nity to contend, rather roughly and as equals, with the great reservoir of speech impedimenta—that is, of democracy—constituted ...
If we are ready to mix scientific controversy and political discussion together in a single arena, we can only be suspicious of ...
be the problem, in the following section, of finding a proper body for them. To understand the nature of the beings to be collec ...
They have been created to instill mutual horror. The only question thus becomes whether one can bring this reciprocal disgust to ...
the ineluctable necessity of objects on the one hand and the subjects’ freedom on the other. This would presuppose that the prob ...
ity. “These are the facts!” you will say, pounding the table with your fist.^25 And you will still be right. To avoid one monste ...
them to a social construction, to prejudices, passions, or opinions that would force you to be indignant over the domination of ...
avoid both this reification and this social construction, the border be- tween social actors and objects had to be carefully pat ...
in large part to the work of laboratories. Now we have to test the re- ciprocal proposition and look at terms often reserved for ...
ing more straightforward than this notion; there is actually nothing more diabolically political. Every single aspect of its def ...
of summoning them up. The real merit of militant ecology is the ever- new surprise that comes when a new actor, human or nonhuma ...
tion. Things no longer threaten subjects. Social construction no longer weakens objects. Readers may object that there is still ...
as thosewho forbid any indisputable transfer(of force or reason), as me- diators with whom it is necessary to reckon, as active ...
also much more complicated, for the same reason—for want of short- circuits, it is going to have to start all over and compose t ...
without ever quite succeeding. I do not expect that the word “proposi- tion” will offer us from the outset an impossible agreeme ...
the second is objective, since it reveals only primary qualities* from the standpoint of the lab coats. How could we describe th ...
To designate what becomes of the collective considered as an asso- ciation of humans and nonhumans defined by longer lists of el ...
propositions are presented as having acquired habits. To be sure, hab- its have the same weight as human interests; but, unlike ...
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