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T1 Ecocriticism, biopolitics, and ecological immunity
A1 Bergthaller, Hannes
K1 Biopolitics
K1 Ecocriticism
K1 Roberto Esposito
K1 Garrett Hardin
K1 Lynn Margulis
K1 Neomalthusianism
K1 Elinor Ostrom
K1 Symbiogenesis
K1 Biopolítica
K1 Ecocrítica
K1 Neomalthusianismo
K1 Simbiogénesis
K1 Literatura
K1 Literature
K1 Medio ambiente
K1 Environmental science
AB Ecocritics tend to think of environmentalism as a form of resistance against the anthropocentrism of Western modernity. Such a view stands in contrast to biopolitical theory, which sees modernity in terms of a naturalization of the human and a generalized effort to increase the productivity of life that cuts across species lines. Building on the work of Roberto Esposito, this process can be described as a radicalized form of ecological immunization whereby humans and their domesticates are protected from the risks that attend membership in ecological communities, resulting in an “unnatural growth of the natural” (H. Arendt). The self-destructive strategies of immunization which characterize biopolitical modernity are based on a conception of life in terms of competition over scarce resources, inevitably leading to Malthusian crises. Lynn Margulis’ understanding of evolution as symbiogenesis offers an alternative on which an affirmative biopolitics balancing the demands of immunity and community can build.
PB Universidad de Alcalá
SN 2171-9594
YR 2020
FD 2020
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/45735
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/45735
LA eng
DS MINDS@UW
RD 25-abr-2024