In Human: Parasites, Posthumanism and Papatūānuku
Capitalist society relies on the liberal notion of atomistic individuals carrying distinct personal and property rights. These ideas are reflected in common sense as well as in bourgeois law, but they fall apart the second you start to get itchy. By violating the fundamental assumptions of liberal i...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Gothenburg
2023-01-01
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| Series: | Parse Journal |
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| Online Access: | https://parsejournal.com/article/in-human-parasites-posthumanism-and-papatuanuku/ |
| Summary: | Capitalist society relies on the liberal notion of atomistic individuals carrying distinct personal and property rights. These ideas are reflected in common sense as well as in bourgeois law, but they fall apart the second you start to get itchy. By violating the fundamental assumptions of liberal individualism, parasites provide a useful starting point for a reconsideration of the relationship between self and other. Informed by deep ecology, new materialism, and Māori philosophical tradition, in this paper I use our shared genealogical descent from the planet herself to propose a new framework for thinking about ourselves. Outside of the capitalist concept of separate individuals in which our thinking has been confined, we find that all along we were an interconnected, permeable, penetrable whole. |
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| ISSN: | 2002-0511 2002-0953 |