Anaturalism and Its Ghosts

Abstract

In Chapter 8, Neyrat further develops his critique regarding both Latour’s statement that we must “love our technological monsters” and the positions of postenvironmentalism and ecomodernism by questioning how it is that we’ve arrived at these positions: where a “political ecology” can ask us to “love technological monsters” while recognizing their eventual catastrophic consequences; where postenvironmentalists claim that there is no such thing as the environment; where the ecomodernists claim that t we will soon arrive into an era of the “super-Anthropocene” in which nature will no longer exist because there will no longer exist any space that hasn’t been touched by human development; where even Australian coral islands will become industrial products; and where we will be able to “decouple technological advances from environmental impacts.” Neyrat argues that all these seemingly recent ideas concerning nature or post-nature found in the work of the postenvironmentalists or ecomodernists are not that new and can be directly traced back to thinkers such as Marx and Engels where nature is considered as “an illusion, an ideological object.”