Dismantling the World

The Capitalocene, Effective Constructivism, and the Inhuman

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  • Frédéric Neyrat

Palavras-chave:

inhuman, unconstructable, Capitalocene, Chthulucene, dismantling

Resumo

An inhuman dimension haunts the world; but this dimension is repressed by what I call the effective constructivism, understood as what configures the world. Leaning on Moore’s analysis, first I will shed some light on the relation between the Capitalocene and effective constructivism. Using Haraway’s notion of the Chthulucene, in the second section I will break the plane of symmetry that effective constructivism produces between humans and nonhumans. In the third section, I will explain how the concept of the inhuman might be more efficient than the concept of the nonhuman to contest effective constructivism: the inhuman is the unconstructable part of the human that resists the humanist scheme at play in effective constructivism. In the last section, I will lean on Heidegger’s philosophy to imagine what dismantling the world of the Capitalocene could mean and why this dismantling might foster the decolonization of nature.

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Referências

CLARK, Nigel. Inhuman Nature: Sociable Life on a Dynamic Planet. New York: Sage, 2010.

HARAWAY, Donna J. “Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene: Making Kin.” Environmental Studies, v. 6 (2015), p. 159-165.

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HEIDEGGER, Martin. Off the Beaten Track. Edited and Translated by Julian Young and Kenneth Haynes. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

LYOTARD, Jean-François. The Inhuman: Reflections on Time. Cambridge and Malden (MA): Polity Press, 1991.

MOORE, Jason W. Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital. London-New York: Verso, 2015.

NANCY, Jean-Luc. Adoration: The Deconstruction of Christianity, II. Translated by John McKeane. New York: Fordham University Press, 2013.

NEYRAT, Frédéric. “Escaping Humanism.” Stream 04 – Les paradoxes du vivant (2017). English translation available at: https://www.pca-stream.com/en/articles/frederic-neyrat-escaping-humanism-91. Accessed: 09/26/2021.

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2021-12-23

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NEYRAT, Frédéric. Dismantling the World : The Capitalocene, Effective Constructivism, and the Inhuman. Das Questões, [S. l.], v. 13, n. 1, 2021. Disponível em: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/dasquestoes/article/view/41308. Acesso em: 19 abr. 2024.