POLITICS OF NATURE
162Box 4.1. Recapitulation of the contribution of each of the skills to the six func-
tions recognized in order for the collective to carry out the search for the com-
mon world according to due process.
Task no. 1: perplexity: requirement of external reality
Scientists:instruments allowing the detection of invisible entities.
Politicians:sense of danger allowing the rapid return of the excluded voices.
Economists:rapid mobilization of the attachments between humans and
nonhumans, between goods and people.
Moralists:scruples that make it necessary to go looking for invisible entities
and appellants.
Task no. 2: consultation: requirement of relevance
Scientists:construction of suitable tests, reliable witnesses, ad hoc judges.
Politicians:production of opinion-holders, concerned parties, stakeholders.
Economists:articulation of differences in processes of interesting.
Moralists:defense of each concerned party’s right to redefine the problem in
its own terms.
Task no. 3: hierarchy: requirement of relevance
Scientists:innovations allowing compromises shifting the burden to other
less important entities.
Politicians:transformations of spokesperson made to represent other aspects
of their constituency.
Economists:production of a common language allowing commensurability
and calculation.
Moralists:obligation to find one and not two hierarchies and thus to resume
at once the work of composition.
Task no. 4: institution: requirement of closure
Scientists:attribution and distribution of causalities and responsibilities,
with the consensus produced being irreversible.
Politicians:production of an inside and an outside through closure and desig-
nation of an enemy.
Economists:obtaining a justifiable decision at the end of the calculation.
Moralists:against the distinction between inside and outside; offer of a right
of appeal to excluded parties.
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