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Lithic abstractions: geophysical operations against the Anthropocene
Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory Pub Date : 2019-05-09 , DOI: 10.1080/1600910x.2019.1610017
Manuel Tironi 1
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ABSTRACT The invention of new forms of geo-social knowledge has become one of the imperatives to resist the so-called Anthropocene. Critical theorists have called for enhanced interdisciplinary collaborations between the earth sciences and the social sciences and humanities to disrupt conventional nature/culture divisions and imagine more sustainable futures. The condition for such geo-social encounters, the argument goes, is the politicization of the geosciences, or the correction of their abstracted modes of knowing. Inspired by feminist science studies and geophilosophies, in this article I follow geophysicists to find in their encounters with lithic things alternative modes of knowledge production. By tracking ethnographically their scientific practices, I try to render visible the pragmatics of the abstractions through which they attempt at apprehending inhuman elements and processes. Particularly, I identify two geophysical operations. First, what I call the geo-affective operation of geophysics, or its constitution on a sensual and embodied ecology that does not suspend the abyssal difference between ‘us’ and the radical alterity of geological things, but is rather the consequence of an open being-with inorganic matter. Second, I engage with geo-poetics as a genre of scientific narration that integrates geological entities into scientific accounts, while at the same time preserving their impossible distance with the human. Both operations, I argue, gesture towards a mode of geo-social knowledge in which geophysical abstraction-making, against the call of critical theorists, is empowered to avoid anthropocentric absorptions and symbioses – and hence towards the reformulation of what politicization means in catastrophic times.

中文翻译:

岩性抽象:反对人类世的地球物理操作

摘要新型社会地理知识的发明已成为抵制所谓的人类世系的当务之急。批判理论家呼吁在地球科学与社会科学和人文科学之间加强跨学科的合作,以破坏传统的自然/文化分歧并设想更可持续的未来。论据认为,这种地缘社会相遇的条件是地球科学的政治化,或者是对他们抽象的认识方式的修正。受女权主义科学研究和地球哲学的启发,在本文中,我跟随地球物理学家在与石器物的相遇中寻找替代性知识生产方式。通过民族志追踪他们的科学实践,我试图使抽象的语用学表现出来,以使它们试图理解非人为的要素和过程。特别是,我确定了两个地球物理作业。首先,我所说的地球物理学的地球情感操作,或者说它是建立在一种感官上和体现上的生态学上的,这种生态学不会中止“我们”与地质事物的根本改变之间的深渊差异,而是开放存在的结果。 -与无机物。其次,我将地理诗学作为一种科学叙事形式进行研究,将地质实体整合到科学描述中,同时保持它们与人类的不可能距离。我认为,这两种操作都指向一种地球社会知识的模式,在这种模式中,地球物理抽象的产生与批判理论家的呼吁相反,
更新日期:2019-05-09
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