Watching the Gifford lectures in preparation for the American Academy of Religion, I"m struck by how when writing Hyperobjects I was thinking the same thoughts as Latour, a fact that has often been pointed out to me by our mutual editor Lindsay Waters of Harvard.
Several points of contact include our enthusiasm for the term Anthropocene (and damn the humanist hand wringing), our rejection of the concept Nature, and our thinking of what comes next (for Latour it is called Gaia) as like the "only a god can save us now" of Heidegger, in a strange ironic way.
I'll post some excellent lines of his on why Anthropocene is a very good term.
Yes it is true that only "God" can save us now. But what is "god" and who or what are we?
ReplyDeleteRegarding Gaia you may find this reference and website intersting.
http://sacredcamelgardens.com/wordpress/wisdom/observe-non-humans-and-learn
Also
www.beezone.com/AdiDa/Aletheon/ontranscendingtheinsubordinatemind.html
Plus these references on Real Politics for Real People
www.dabase.org/p2anthro.htm
www.ispeace723.org
www.beezone.com/news.html
Essays on the origins & consequences of the anti-ecological mind-set that mis-informs all of Western culture.
Space-Time IS Love-Bliss
http://spiralledlight.wordpress.com/2010/08/24/4068
www.dabase.org/Reality_Itself_Is_Not_In_The_Middle.htm
www.aboutadidam.org/readings/bridge_to_god/index.html
Do you know Jeffrey Kripal who works at Rice?