Ecological Metapolitics Badiou And The Anthropocene Am Johal by Am Johal 9781940813936, 194081393X instant download after payment.

This book interfaces Alain Badiou’s philosophical work on militant political change with the contemporary question of ecology and the geological epoch referred to as the Anthropocene. Building on Badiou’s broader philosophical ontology, Ecological Metapolitics will be introduced as a philosophical term, defined as the consequences a philosophy is capable of drawing from the political project of ecology as thought. Concepts of democratic materialism, human rights, democracy and ethics will be critiqued, exposing the limits of existing political philosophy. The discussion applies a methodology of affirmative dialectics to today’s ecological questions, considering them from the perspective of the event, political change and the subject. Through such framing, Badiou’s philosophical contributions are situated within current ecological discourses. Discussions on resistance, the passion for the real, sovereignty, accelerationism and geo-engineering are also considered in the book. Though Badiou’s oeuvre evidently figures prominently in my treatment, it is also complemented by thinkers such as Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, Judith Butler, Glen Coulthard, Frantz Fanon, Carl Schmitt and others.