In Facing the Planetary William E. Connolly expands his influential work on the politics of pluralization, capitalism, fragility, and secularism to address the complexities of climate change and to complicate notions of the Anthropocene. Focusing on planetary processes—including the ocean conveyor, glacier flows, tectonic plates, and species evolution—he combines a critical understanding of capitalism with an appreciation of how such nonhuman systems periodically change on their own. Drawing upon scientists and intellectuals such as Lynn Margulis, Michael Benton, Alfred North Whitehead, Anna Tsing, Mahatma Gandhi, Wangari Maathai, Pope Francis, Bruno Latour, and Naomi Klein, Connolly focuses on the gap between those regions creating the most climate change and those suffering most from it. He addresses the creative potential of a "politics of swarming" by which people in different regions and social positions coalesce to reshape dominant priorities. He also explores how those displaying spiritual affinities across differences in creed can energize a militant assemblage that is already underway.
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Publisher
Duke University Press BooksYear
2017Print ISBN
9780822363415
9780822363309
eBook ISBN
9780822373254
Topic
PhilosophySubtopic
Political Philosophy
SOCIOCENTRISM
AND
THE
PLANETARY
•
35
cated
with
the
effects
of
the
Anthropocene.
e
new
assemblage,
if
it
grows,
will
build
upon
a
host
of
environmental
movements
currently
in
play,
some
of
which
already
pursue
new
connections
across
regions
and
constituencies.
If
such
interconnected
populist
movements
do
crystallize,
could
they
eventu-
ally
foment
general
strikes
in
numerous
countries
and
regions
at
the
same
time?
Such
strikes
would
impose
demands
upon
multiple
institutions
from
the
inside
and
outside
at
the
same
time;
the
sources
of
injury,
energy,
and
hope
they
draw
upon
would
emanate
from
several
sites.
Yes,
such
a
plural,
invitational
“we”
may
fail
to
generate
the
energy
and
mo-
mentum
needed
in
time.
It
is
thus
an
improbable
necessity
rather
than
speak-
ing
to
a
highly
probable
constellation.
Assembled
from
diverse
sites
during
a
period
of
temporal
urgency,
facing
diverse
effects
upon
different
regions
and
classes,
the
potential,
pluralized
“we”
in
question
resides
in
a
world
and
time
of
tragic
possibility.
This
page
intentionally
left
blank
Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Prelude: Myth and the Planetary
- 1. Sociocentrism, the Anthropocene, and the Planetary
- 2. Species Evolution and Cultural Creativity
- 3. Creativity and the Scars of Being
- 4. Distributed Agencies and Bumpy Temporalities
- 5. The Politics of Swarming and the General Strike
- 6. Postcolonial Ecologies, Extinction Events, and Entangled Humanism
- Postlude: Capitalism and the Planetary
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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