Our Issues?
A Garcian-Latourian Approach to Speculative Realist Political Theory
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https://doi.org/10.26512/dasquestoes.v18i1.42753Mots-clés :
Tristan Garcia, Bruno Latour, Issue-oriented politics, we-ourselves, Speculative realismRésumé
Abstract
Levi Bryant in his Speculations IV article on “Politics and Speculative Realism”, argued that critical theories in general detrimentally overemphasize the human-world relation. Bryant argues that there should be a further emphasis on the real (for him the “material”) world. But one cannot lose sight of how it is that we political persons have these real, material issues in view. In this paper, I attempt to approach the realist problem of political relations by way of Tristian Garcia's We Ourselves. The Garcian “we” is then connected to a realist Latourian political theory of “issues”. An issue-oriented politics requires that one pay attention to the trajectory of political concerns, and who exactly such issues concern. In other words, these issues (which can be differentially categorized for analytical clarity as Bryant does), somewhat presupposes a Garcian we that has an issue in view. This “having something in view” may exclude the non-human, or the non-human may be taken into account, depending on our conception of “we”. Finally, I attempt to emphasize that an issue-oriented political philosophy requires a theorization of issue-overlap or “stacking”, and that Garcia’s emphasis on transparencies and piles (of “we’s”) can be applied to the realist politics of issues.
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