December 3, 2014 - 17:02
In Latour's essay, he touched on: (flow chart attempt)
(1)Our connectedness with the our Planet--> (2) The destruction we bring upon our planet--> (3)Our need to realize the truths about nature and humanity
---we have a "common geostory" --We are releasing dangerous amounts of CO2 --Earth is not nature or a machine
--"We are detroying the earth and making it quake" -- "We ned to free ourselves from the seperate relams of nature and humanity"
--->Humans are inept at articulating and truly addressing the needs of our planet.<---
Latour says; "
The prefix
“geo” in geostory does not stand for the return to nature, but for the
return of object and subject back to the ground—the “metamorphic
zone”—they had both believed it possible to escape: one by deanimation,
the other by overanimation. Only then will the Earthbound have
a chance to articulate their speech in a way that will be compatible with
the articulation of Gaia. The old metaphor of a Political Body might
take on a new lease on life, if it is another name for living with Gaia."
Is this Latour calling for politcal action to aid in addressing the earth's issues, but addressing them through the living needs of the planet, rather than what WE as humans THINK the planet needs? I'm not sure what it is he is saying. How do owe acheive that muc h sense of our planet without it having a voice of its own? Aren't we as humans, always going to bias it?