Continued from the last post: I can't tell you how awkward it was to be pathologized as one of these apocalypse mongers on numerous occasions, perhaps most intensely at U Wisconsin Madison last fall. Especially since like Latour (I say it all the time, in a slightly different register), my belief is that the apocalypse has already occurred.
I was pathologized thus simply for stating a physical fact: at the rate we are going, by 30 years from now we will have emitted five times more gigatons of carbon than is necessary to, ahem, "transform" (I believe I used a coital verb) Earth beyond all recognition.
An arche-fact, if you like, one that doesn't depend on a correlator to make it real.
2 comments:
between you and i,
the punch line to this joke comes in a confession in parathethis that doubles over to the joke im about to make or is it a rethorical question????????( in an undergraduate first year seminar [as a student] written exam, i wrongly attributed a Darwin citation to Nietszche.... i was super nerdified (mortified) considering Nietzsche's injunction "above all never mistake me for someone else" [and being 20 years old!!!]
Now the joke:
If they read you at all closely shouldn't they mistake you instead for being too modern????
Wasn't the idea that the apocalypse has already happened first put forward by Jean-Pierre Dupuy? Latour actually quotes him approvingly in a recent interview: http://www.franceculture.fr/emission-la-suite-dans-les-idees-anthropologie-du-futur-crise-du-futur-2013-09-07
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