In this article, I argue that the concept of alienation should be mobilized to develop a ‘geo-social’ critique of the generic forms of life that sustain contemporary capitalist societies, in a time when the stability of the Earth system is increasingly at risk. I contend that retrieving the full heuristic potential of the concept demands engaging the fields where it has been traditionally discussed (notably social philosophy and environmental philosophy) to demonstrate how their insights on alienation can be fruitfully combined. By putting greater emphasis on how society and nature are mutually embedded, this new approach to alienation highlights the anthropocentrism that critical theory has long conveyed and indicates how it could be at least partially corrected.

在本文中，我认为，在地球系统的稳定性日益受到威胁的时候，应该动员异化的概念，对维持当代资本主义社会的一般生活形式进行“地缘社会”批评。我认为，要充分挖掘该概念的启发性潜力，就需要介入传统上已经讨论过的领域（特别是社会哲学和环境哲学），以证明如何将他们对异化的见解有效地结合起来。通过更加强调社会与自然如何相互嵌入，这种新的异化方法突显了批判理论长期以来传达的人类中心主义，并指出了如何至少部分地加以纠正。