Protecting Biodiversity via Metaphysical Angels of the Future
Protecting Biodiversity via Metaphysical Angels of the Future
Author(s): Amalia LouissonSubject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Philosophy, Social Sciences
Published by: Институтот за општествени и хуманистички науки – Скопје
Keywords: geoengineering; prometheanism; biodiversity protection; Katerina Kolozova; futurism;
Summary/Abstract: Global trends in contemporary left biodiversity protection practices are self-undermining because they are fixated on resurrecting past ecological conditions, while failing to prepare for the future. Not only will many species be unable to survive in predicted future conditions, but focusing on the past has forfeited the future to capital. Instead, this paper presented at the ISSHS School for Politics and Critique 2020 takes the recently resurrected figure of Prometheus to promote an environmentalism that casts its eyes to the future. It will be argued that preparing the future for biodiversity can sever capital’s claim over the future by prompting a traumatic instance of physicality.
Journal: Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture
- Issue Year: 17/2020
- Issue No: 2-3
- Page Range: 76-80
- Page Count: 5
- Language: English
