Digital Infrastructures and Militarised Environments
This paper presents the idea of multispecies diplomacy on the background of unstable and violent political geographies of the Anthropocene. The idea is first defined in terms of associated notions of sympoiesis and habilitation. After the preliminary arrangement of the conceptual framework of the pa...
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| description | This paper presents the idea of multispecies diplomacy on the background of unstable and violent political geographies of the Anthropocene. The idea is first defined in terms of associated notions of sympoiesis and habilitation. After the preliminary arrangement of the conceptual framework of the paper, the possibilities of multispecies diplomacy are assessed in relation to current militarisation of environment, that prevents any diplomatic solution of climate change and leads to increased environmental injustices worldwide. This is illustrated with an example of conflict in the Negev desert, where changing climate is inherently integrated into the structure of conflict. Secondly, digital infrastructures are identified as an ambiguous factor influencing the outlooks of future practices of multispecies diplomacy. Thanks to their capacity to redesign existing environment, they can act as forces of deterritorialisation that can either stabilise existing hegemonies or lead to subversive appropriation. As far as digital platforms are open to ideological reframing, ecosocialist politics engaging in multispecies diplomacy is encouraged to appropriate them in terms of cognitive mapping and habilitation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2921dd435e14409693565c87e1040d572022-12-21T22:25:45ZengJap Sam BooksCubic Journal2589-71012018-04-01119620910.31182/cubic.2018.1.01214Digital Infrastructures and Militarised EnvironmentsLukáš Likavčan0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6957-9079Masaryk UniversityThis paper presents the idea of multispecies diplomacy on the background of unstable and violent political geographies of the Anthropocene. The idea is first defined in terms of associated notions of sympoiesis and habilitation. After the preliminary arrangement of the conceptual framework of the paper, the possibilities of multispecies diplomacy are assessed in relation to current militarisation of environment, that prevents any diplomatic solution of climate change and leads to increased environmental injustices worldwide. This is illustrated with an example of conflict in the Negev desert, where changing climate is inherently integrated into the structure of conflict. Secondly, digital infrastructures are identified as an ambiguous factor influencing the outlooks of future practices of multispecies diplomacy. Thanks to their capacity to redesign existing environment, they can act as forces of deterritorialisation that can either stabilise existing hegemonies or lead to subversive appropriation. As far as digital platforms are open to ideological reframing, ecosocialist politics engaging in multispecies diplomacy is encouraged to appropriate them in terms of cognitive mapping and habilitation.https://www.cubicjournal.org/index.php/cubic/article/view/14militarisationhabilitationcognitive mappingsympoiesisdigital platforms |
| spellingShingle | Lukáš Likavčan Digital Infrastructures and Militarised Environments Cubic Journal militarisation habilitation cognitive mapping sympoiesis digital platforms |
| title | Digital Infrastructures and Militarised Environments |
| title_full | Digital Infrastructures and Militarised Environments |
| title_fullStr | Digital Infrastructures and Militarised Environments |
| title_full_unstemmed | Digital Infrastructures and Militarised Environments |
| title_short | Digital Infrastructures and Militarised Environments |
| title_sort | digital infrastructures and militarised environments |
| topic | militarisation habilitation cognitive mapping sympoiesis digital platforms |
| url | https://www.cubicjournal.org/index.php/cubic/article/view/14 |
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