Geopower denotes the emerging paradigm of political power: a global management of the Earth system, by way of “instruments of anticipation, prediction, and global simulation” (p. 91).pic.twitter.com/zg07Cf8B1U
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Recently finished Bonneuil & Fressoz (2013) on the history of the Anthropocene. Harsh words for those who would be our saviours: the managers of the earth, who inherited methods of control from the Cold War, and would cast them ever wider across an increasingly fragile globe.pic.twitter.com/pO1QR1S3B9
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Even within ecology the promethean dream returns: Latour imagines a retelling of Frankenstein in which Victor does not flee the monster, but returns to improve upon his misshapen creation. It is no longer a tale of technological horror, but of a failure of control and mastery.pic.twitter.com/NKGCHVW06F
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Under the guise of salvation may come another ruling class: one which can model the earth and its disasters, without addressing their causes. Geopower in this sense becomes not a control of the earth, but a control of us all in the planet’s name.pic.twitter.com/nNvlTyI4Qw
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