Anti-anthropocentric democracy: devices of representation, listening and extra-human visibility
Dispositivos de representação, escuta e visibilidade extra-humana
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https://doi.org/10.31068.310204Keywords:
Posthumanism; Deliberative democracy; Climate Emergency; ontological turn; Aesthetics of politics.Abstract
The article examines conditions of political, ethical and aesthetic possibility of an anti-anthropocentric representative democracy, that is, one that thematizes and mobilizes political devices to address political decision-making biases that impact extra-human entities. To achieve this objective, we first examine biological and ontological foundations that support the hypothesis that any sensitive entities carry a type of inalienable interest: that of persevering in their own existence. Considering the validity and consequences of this hypothesis, we transport it to a classic reflection of representative democracy, which concerns the possibilities and challenges of expanding this political regime so that it promotes legal, political and moral recognition of such inalienable interests. In this step, we consider the challenges and possibilities of dealing with the (insurmountable) anthropocentric bias in political decision-making about extra-humans, based on the possibility of the latter becoming minimally represented, audible and visible. Seeking to outline answers to this problem, we present three conditions necessary for such an anti-anthropocentric reconfiguration to be operated in representative democracies: a) inclusion of indigenous peoples in decision-making about extra-human entities; b) experimentation with deliberative devices that support a dissenting interaction between representatives of different ontologies; c) mobilization of imagery and audiovisual devices that lessen the “incommensurabilities” of being affected by the inalienable interests of other modes of existence.
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