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Eine kommunaristokratische Antwort auf den Ruf der Gaia: Die Herausbildung einer vornehmen Indifferenz gegen religiöse Ohnmachtsnarrative der Natur

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A Communaristocratic Response to the Call of Gaia: Formation of a Noble Indifference Towards Religious Narratives of Nature. This paper takes its starting point from Badiou’s recent diagnosis of “religiosity” in the “dominant current of ecology.” Insofar that this dominant current shies away from considering the real cause of the catastrophic phenomena - which lies according to Badiou in globalized capitalism - its calls for taking necessary measures to save the planet not only end up in feebleness but also strengthen the regime that it allegedly criticizes. The paper traces Nietzschean motifs in Badiou’s diagnosis and suggests linking it to what Nietzsche calls moral-religious humanization of nature. Insofar as today’s religiosity does not refer to any concrete religion, the popularization of the “Gaia Theory” constitutes a prominent expression of a religious conception of nature. What the paper shows is that this kind of conception of nature catalyzes today a capitalist re-articulation of economy and religion which leads to an expansion of circulation of commodity exchange. In other words, capitalism in its latemodern face, is conserved in a sustainable fashion. The objective of the paper is forming a noble indifference vis-à-vis the frame of what we can call moral consumption as the product of such a conception of nature, that is an orientation which affirms the infinite egalitarian power of creativity, instead of being content with the “happiness of the smallest moral superiority” in sustainable consumption. By thinking Badiou’s new communism and Nietzsche’s new aristocracy together, the paper articulates a position that reflects a disjunctive synthesis of Badiou’s radical egalitarian and Nietzsche’s radical aristocratic orientations, which it suggests coining communaristocracy.

Abstract

A Communaristocratic Response to the Call of Gaia: Formation of a Noble Indifference Towards Religious Narratives of Nature. This paper takes its starting point from Badiou’s recent diagnosis of “religiosity” in the “dominant current of ecology.” Insofar that this dominant current shies away from considering the real cause of the catastrophic phenomena - which lies according to Badiou in globalized capitalism - its calls for taking necessary measures to save the planet not only end up in feebleness but also strengthen the regime that it allegedly criticizes. The paper traces Nietzschean motifs in Badiou’s diagnosis and suggests linking it to what Nietzsche calls moral-religious humanization of nature. Insofar as today’s religiosity does not refer to any concrete religion, the popularization of the “Gaia Theory” constitutes a prominent expression of a religious conception of nature. What the paper shows is that this kind of conception of nature catalyzes today a capitalist re-articulation of economy and religion which leads to an expansion of circulation of commodity exchange. In other words, capitalism in its latemodern face, is conserved in a sustainable fashion. The objective of the paper is forming a noble indifference vis-à-vis the frame of what we can call moral consumption as the product of such a conception of nature, that is an orientation which affirms the infinite egalitarian power of creativity, instead of being content with the “happiness of the smallest moral superiority” in sustainable consumption. By thinking Badiou’s new communism and Nietzsche’s new aristocracy together, the paper articulates a position that reflects a disjunctive synthesis of Badiou’s radical egalitarian and Nietzsche’s radical aristocratic orientations, which it suggests coining communaristocracy.

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