Whether or not there is a direct causal relationship, nationalism is at the heart of all the crises in the modern world and becomes entangled in its effects. As the fundamental source of authority for all modes of governance in the world, we are beholden to its capacity to resolve these cascading crises. I argue that the nation form is the ‘epistemic engine’ driving the globally circulatory and doxic Enlightenment ideal of the conquest of nature and perpetual growth that sustains the runaway technosphere. The cascading crises that we have already witnessed in this century—financial, economic, epidemic and climatological—are rooted significantly in this technosphere. At the same time, we will have to find our way through and out of these forms to secure a sustainable planet. I explore the interstitial spaces and counter-flows of social movements that are seeking to develop a post-Enlightenment and a planetary, rather than a global, cosmology.

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欧内斯特·盖尔纳民族主义讲座：民族主义与全球现代性危机

无论是否存在直接的因果关系，民族主义都是现代世界所有危机的核心，并与它的影响纠缠在一起。作为世界上所有治理模式的基本权威来源，我们对其解决这些级联危机的能力感到感激。我认为，国家形式是“认知引擎”，它推动着全球循环的、道德的启蒙理想，即征服自然和维持失控的技术圈的永久增长。我们在本世纪已经目睹的连锁危机——金融、经济、流行病和气候危机——都深深植根于这个技术领域。与此同时，我们必须找到通过和摆脱这些形式的方法，以确保一个可持续的地球。