ABSTRACT

The plantation has become a landscape of political impossibility. Its industrial modes of production and scientific management pose existential threats to local lifeways, stymie social justice movements, and unleash persistent ecological harms. This article argues that a renewed scientific sensibility offers a way to expand local strategies for transformative political praxis in the face of other political constraints. It introduces the notion of ‘science-in-vivo’, a method of experimentation that has emerged in the context of Philippine banana plantations ravaged by the ‘incurable’ fungal disease Fusarium Wilt Tropical Race Four, also known as Panama Disease. Literally ‘science within the living body’, the method combines secular and non-secular thought, and gathers human, nonhuman, and extrahuman forces in ways that break down some of the hegemonic antagonisms that define plantation life. It was inspired, originally, by a series of God-given dreams about microbes in the forests of southern Mindanao.

摘要

种植园已成为政治上不可能的景观。其工业生产方式和科学管理对当地的生活方式，生存的社会正义运动和现有的生态危害造成了威胁。本文认为，面对其他政治限制，更新的科学敏感性为扩大变革性政治实践的本地策略提供了一种途径。它介绍了“体内科学”的概念，这种实验方法是在菲律宾香蕉种植园中被“不治之症”真菌病镰刀枯萎病热带四号（Fusarium Wilt Tropical Race Four，又称巴拿马病）肆虐而出现的。从字面上讲是“活体内的科学”，该方法结合了世俗思想和非世俗思想，并收集了人类，非人类，和超人类力量，以打破某些定义种植园生活的霸权对抗。它最初是由棉兰老南部森林中一系列关于微生物的上帝赋予的梦想所激发的。