Ontopolitics in the Anthropocene

An Introduction to Mapping, Sensing and Hacking
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-138-57057-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 334 g

Reihe: Critical Issues in Global Politics

The Anthropocene captures more than a debate over how to address the problems of climate change and global warming. Increasingly, it is seen to signify the end of the modern condition itself and potentially to open up a new era of political possibilities. This is the first book to look at the new forms of governance emerging in the epoch of the Anthropocene. Forms of rule, which seek to govern without the handrails of modernist assumptions of ‘command and control’ from the top-down; taking on board new ontopolitical understandings of the need to govern on the grounds of non-linearity, complexity and entanglement.

The book is divided into three parts, each focusing on a distinct mode or understanding of governance: Mapping, Sensing and Hacking. Mapping looks at attempts to govern through designing adaptive interventions into processes of interaction. Sensing considers ways of developing greater real time sensitivity to changes in relations, often deploying new technologies of Big Data and the Internet of Things. Hacking analyses the development of ways of ‘becoming with’, working to recomposition and reassemble relations in new and creative forms.

This work will be of great interest to students and scholars of international politics, international security and international relations theory and those interested in critical theory and the way this is impacted by contemporary developments.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chandler, David

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part One – Introduction 1. Introduction: Affirming the Anthropocene Part Two: Mapping 2. After Neoliberalism: Mapping Assemblages 3. From the ‘Black Box’ to the ‘Great Outdoors’ Part Three: Sensing 4. The Rise of the Correlational Machine 5. Big Data Sensing Part Four: Hacking 6. From Sensing to Hacking 7. Hacking as Sympoiesis Part Five: Stakes 8. Ontopolitics and Critique 9. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

David Chandler is Professor of International Relations, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Westminster, UK, and editor of the journal Resilience: International Policies, Practices and Discourses.