GEOLOGINIS LAIKAS IR GLOBALI ERDVĖ KAIP ANTROPOCENO ETIKOS (NE)GALIMYBĖS SĄLYGA
GEOLOGICAL TIME AND GLOBAL SPACE AS A CONDITION OF (IM)POSSIBILITY OF ETHICS IN THE ANTHROPOCENE

Summary/Abstract: This article deals with the question what happens when the term “Anthropocene”, originating from geoscience, is incorporated into ethical discourse. The author argues that the appearance of geological time scales and global space in ethical self-perception testifies the extension of the field of our responsibility, but at the same time this responsibility becomes as ephemeral as the human effort to imagine a multimillion-time span. By discussing two strategies that have been crystallized – technological-managerial solutions to ecological problems implemented through the development of various geoengineering projects and environmental initiatives that emphasize the importance of biodiversity – the author seeks to determine whether they allow for the establishment of an ethical subject and ethical action. Comparing Timothy Clark’s and Jacques Derrida’s positions, the author discusses whether the crisis of human “local”, “immediate” action, resulting from the tension between local and global perspectives and precluding a clear decision on what would be more appropriate in the face of the ecological catastrophe, is a condition of impossibility of ethics in the Anthropocene or, quite the reverse, its possibility.

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