#chakrabarty

En 1968, Simone de Beauvoir escribe “La mujer rota”, obra en la que realiza una radiografía del cliché femenino de la época que deviene en un estudio sociológico sobre el papel de la mujer en las sociedades tradicionales, caracterizadas por su marcada idiosincrasia patriarcal. Partiendo de las tesis feministas planteadas en el relato de Beauvoir, se realizará una aproximación crítica al sistema…

『一つの惑星、多数の世界――気候がもたらす視差をめぐって』 ディペシュ・チャクラバルティ著 篠原雅武 訳

発　行　人文書院

刊行日　2024年2月刊

装　幀　上野かおる

仕　様　四六判・並製・240頁

原　著 Dipesh Chakrabarty, One Planet, Many Worlds: The Climate Parallax, Brandeis University Press, 2023.

著者はインド出身の歴史学者で――

『人新世の人間の条件』（早川健治訳、晶文社、2023）

「マイノリティの歴史、サバルタンの過去」（臼田雅之訳、月刊誌『思想』1998年9月号 所収、岩波書店）

などの日本語訳があります。

また、翻訳者の篠原雅武さんには、『空間のために』（以文社、2011）、『全‐生活論』（同、2012年）、『複数性のエコロジー』（同、2016）、『人新世の哲学』（人文書院、2018）などの著書があります。

『一つの惑星、多数の世界』の詳しい書誌情報は、人文書院のＨＰ　をご覧ください。

Visva-Bharati Surviving on Ventilation, For Some, It’s a Goose That Lays Golden Eggs: VC Bidyut Chakrabarty

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Kolkata: Visva-Bharati Vice-Chancellor Bidyut Chakrabarty on Friday claimed the cash-starved university that is being used “as the goose which lays golden eggs” by many “is unwell” and “surviving on ventilation”.

Addressing a gathering on International Mother Language Day on the campus, the VC said a number of incidents in the recent past has sent a wrong message about the university…

The most fascinating bit for me is this:

Having refreshed myself on Chakrabarty’s four theses, I feel much more confident about how my essay will all fit together. Basically, I am using this blog post as an early plan for my Chakrabarty sections on my essay, and will be quoting areas of the piece that I think may come in useful later when writing.

Thesis One Quotes:

“Humans now wield a geological force” (206).

“There are now so many of us cutting down so many trees and burning so many billions of tons of fossil fuels that we have indeed become geological agents. We have changed the chemistry of our atmosphere, causing sea level to rise, ice to melt, and climate to change” (206).

“We can become geological agents only historically and collectively, that is, when we have reached numbers and invented technologies that are on a scale large enough to have an impact on the planet itself. To call ourselves geological agents is to attribute to us a force on the same scale as that released at other times when there has been a mass extinction of species” (206-207).

--> Basically, thesis one makes clear two things: Human and natural histories cannot be distinguished, and humankind is now a significant geological actor. These are important when considering Wall-E, where Earth is a trash covered, polluted mess. We, according to the film, become such significant actors that we kill off all plants and basically all life which is a big deal! I think that some of Malfeasance could stand as a “why” and a “how” in relation to humanity’s reasons for, and execution of, this new geological power.

Thesis Two Quotes:

“Now that humans—thanks to our numbers, the burning of fossil fuel, and other related activities— have become a geological agent on the planet, some scientists have proposed that we recognize the beginning of a new geological era, one in which humans act as a main determinant of the environment of the planet. The name they have coined for this new geological age is Anthropocene.” (209).

““Humanity has so far played the role of planetary killer, concerned only with its own short-term survival. We have cut much of the heart out of biodiversity.” (210).

““Mankind will remain a major geological force for many millennia,maybe millions of years, to come” (211).