13/06/2012 Frédéric Neyrat | UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, MADISON/LYON CLIMATIC TURN: ECOPOLITICAL THOUGHT AND THE AVATARS OF HUMANISM

Abstract
I f climate change can be used as an accurate metaphor for our ecopolitical situation, theory has to evolve vis-à-vis this frightening situation. But in which sense? Does it mean that we have to become paranoiac? Does it mean that, like in Take shelter, a 2011 film of Jeff Nichols, it’s not possible any more to differentiate between paranoia and a lucid approach of reality? Current politics could be defined through their relations with time: they try to prevent catastrophes through the calculation of risks. But what sort of risks? Real or imaginary ones? In order to answer these questions, theory has to undergo a climate turn.


Biography
Frédéric Neyrat is a philosopher. From 2001 to 2007 he has been director of program of the Collège International de Philosophie. He is co-editor of the journal Revue Multitudes. From 2008 to 2009 he has been fellow of the Society of the Humanities at Cornell University. From 2011 to 2012 2012 he has been Visiting Professor at the Department of Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA. His work concerns issues of negativity, destruction and the logic of the wholesome and of integrity in ontology and ethics as well as in bio-, immuno- and ecopolitcs. He is actually one of the eminent thinkers of the ecophilosphical question. Neyrat is the author of Surexposés. Le Monde, le Capital, la Terre, Paris 2004, L’indemne. Heidegger et la destruction du monde, Paris 2008; Biopolitique des catastrophes, Paris 2008; Clinamen. Flux, absolu et loi spirale, Paris 2011; Conjurations. Essai sur les sociétés de clairvoyance (forthcoming).

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