Ontology
The Bias of Centrisms
Cf. Bias
The problem with all types of 'centrisms' such as anthropocentrism but also ecocentrism, biocentrism and geocentrism is that they are a distraction from the processual character of the history of the universe.
Cf. Nail, Thomas. Theory of the Earth. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2021.
Dissipative systems as the foundation for both life and non-life.
Everything as a non-determinant swerving system.
Homeorhetic conditions, stability of dynamical change, meta-stability
Kinetic-cene, we threw up into the air and into our bodies a lot of material that was previously moving differently or slowly
Trees dissipate 99% of energy. Vaclav Smil
Ontic Harms
The oppression of women (sexism) and the oppression of nature (speciesism) suggest a shared "ontology of objectification" between women and nonhuman animals.1
"Ontological vulnerability" explores plights and plundering that leave nonhuman animals vulnerable to harm. Discusses the vulnerability to the loss of individuality and the vulnerability to the loss of species identification, resulting in a "generic animal."2
Need to overcome the anthropocentric foundations of transitional justice and the entrenched ontological divide between humans and nonhuman beings.3
Cf, "vulnerability as a concept that blurs species distinction.
LaMothe, Ryan. “The Silence of Othered Species: The Anthropocene Age, Trauma, and the Ontological Rift.” Pastoral Psychology 72, no. 3 (2023): 385–402. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11089-023-01069-9.
Jenkins, Katharine. “Ontic Injustice.” Journal of the American Philosophical Association 6, no. 2 (2020): 188–205. https://doi.org/10.1017/apa.2019.27.
References
Todd, Zoe. “An Indigenous Feminist’s Take on the Ontological Turn: ‘Ontology’ Is Just Another Word for Colonialism.” Journal of Historical Sociology 29, no. 1 (2016): 4–22. https://doi.org/10.1111/johs.12124.
Boelens, Rutgerd, Lena Hommes, and Jaime Hoogesteger. “Ontological Politics in River Defence Debates: Unpacking Fields of Contention in Eco-Centric and Non-Human Turns.” Water Alternatives 17, no. 3 (2024): 649–68.
Harrison, Rodney. “Beyond ‘Natural’ and ‘Cultural’ Heritage: Toward an Ontological Politics of Heritage in the Age of Anthropocene.” Heritage & Society 8, no. 1 (2015): 24–42. https://doi.org/10.1179/2159032x15z.00000000036.
Jensen, Casper Bruun. “The Anthropocene Eel: Emergent Knowledge, Ontological Politics and New Propositions for an Age of Extinctions.” Anthropocenes – Human, Inhuman, Posthuman 1, no. 1 (2020): 1–11. https://doi.org/10.16997/ahip.11.
Mol, Annemarie. “Ontological Politics. A Word and Some Questions.” The Sociological Review 47, no. 1 (1999): 74–89. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954X.1999.tb03483.x.
Holbraad, Martin, and Morten Axel Pedersen. The Ontological Turn: An Anthropological Exposition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Footnotes
McWeeny, Jennifer. “Topographies of Flesh: Women, Nonhuman Animals, and the Embodiment of Connection and Difference.” Hypatia 29, no. 2 (2014): 269–86.˄
Shapiro, Kenneth Joel. “The Death of the Animal: Ontological Vulnerability.” Between the Species: A Journal for the Study of Philosophy and Animals 5, no. 4 (1989). https://doi.org/10.15368/bts.1989v5n4.1.˄
Clark, Janine Natalya. “Harm, Relationality and More-than-Human Worlds: Developing the Field of Transitional Justice in New Posthumanist Directions.” International Journal of Transitional Justice 17, no. 1 (2023): 15–31. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijtj/ijac025.˄
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