2023-09-17 17:35:29
The functioning of the global economy still relies heavily on fossil fuels, which are literally killing us. Not only is it imperative to refuse any new investment in fossil infrastructure, but we must also close and deconstruct existing fossil infrastructure. Article reserved for subscribers By Paul Blume, Anthropocene Observatory; Cédric Chevalier, essayist, Anthropocene Observatory; Kim Le Quang, Rise for Climate Belgium; Laurent Lievens, doctor in sociology and lecturer, Anthropocene Observatory Published on 09/17/2023 at 7:35 p.m. Reading time: 3 min
The philosopher Frédéric Lordon, great disciple of the philosopher Baruch Spinoza, extended his reflection on the affects which regulate human relations and politics. In the political space, everyone, each camp, each party, seeks to affect the rest of the body politic in order to mobilize it, that is to say, set it in motion in a desired direction. The words spoken by “opinion leaders”, politicians, intellectuals, activists, associations, artists and other citizens in their speeches, debates and works of art affect us more or less intensely and set us in motion. Ideas, in this sense, govern the world, if they are capable of affecting bodies, and therefore individual powers of action. The body politic is the emergence of these individual powers which are composed and recomposed into multiple organizations and can give form to the power of the multitude or public power, that is to say the State.
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