ABSTRACT

One way of understanding calls for ‘multispecies justice’ is to interpret them as utopian demands for a desirable future in which the structural anthropocentrism of conventional forms of morality, including environmental ethics, has been thoroughly abolished. I hope to clarify what kind of utopia multispecies justice might specifically entail. Mobilizing a conceptual framework developed by the science fiction author Octavia Butler, three potential plotlines for the utopia of multispecies justice are identified: the What-If, the If-Only and the If-This-Goes-On. Each of these engages the various tasks of utopianism in interestingly different ways. The key argument is that multispecies justice primarily raises a challenging What-If question: as a critical interrogation of how we should process and experience the world (and our place within it), its power derives from the ‘educated hope’ to disrupt and reassemble outdated frameworks for making sense of the nature/culture divide.

摘要

一种理解呼吁“多物种正义”的方式是将其解释为对理想未来的乌托邦式要求，在这种未来中，包括环境伦理在内的传统道德形式的结构性人类中心主义已被彻底废除。我希望澄清什么样的乌托邦多物种正义可能具体涉及。动员科幻小说作家奥克塔维亚·巴特勒（Octavia Butler）开发的概念框架，确定了多物种正义乌托邦的三个潜在情节线：假设、假设和假设。这些中的每一个都以有趣的不同方式参与了乌托邦主义的各种任务。关键论点是多物种正义主要提出了一个具有挑战性的假设问题：作为对我们应该如何处理和体验世界（以及我们在其中的位置）的批判性询问，它的力量来自“受过教育的希望”，以破坏和重组过时的框架，以理解自然/文化的鸿沟。