Anthropoligarchy: Politics and the Nonhuman in the Anthropocene

IF 1.4 4区计算机科学 Q4 AUTOMATION & CONTROL SYSTEMS

Discrete Event Dynamic Systems-Theory and Applications Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI:10.1353/tae.2023.0014

Charles Nathan

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Abstract

Abstract:This paper uses resources from ancient democratic theory to assert a deep connection between democracy and environmentalism. I leverage arguments from two critics of Athenian democracy, Aristophanes and Plato, who thundered that democracy was so ontologically destabilizing that it would lead to animals ruling over humans. Using this ancient notion of democracy, the current human/nonhuman relationship can be recast as an eco-political regime called anthropoligarchy, an oligarch/demos conflict in which the human few dominate over a vast nonhuman demos viewed as incapable of ruling. The concept of anthropoligarchy provides a normative framework for understanding environmental politics in the Anthropocene.

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人类学:人类世的政治与非人类

摘要:本文利用古代民主理论的资源，论证了民主与环保之间的深刻联系。我引用了两位批评雅典民主的人——阿里斯托芬和柏拉图——的观点，他们怒斥民主在本体论上是如此不稳定，以至于会导致动物统治人类。利用这一古老的民主概念，当前的人类/非人类关系可以被重塑为一种被称为人类政治的生态政治制度，一种寡头/平民的冲突，在这种冲突中，少数人统治着被视为无法统治的广大非人类平民。人类学的概念为理解人类世的环境政治提供了一个规范的框架。

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Discrete Event Dynamic Systems-Theory and Applications 数学-应用数学

CiteScore

3.90

自引率

5.00%

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审稿时长

>12 weeks

期刊介绍： The research on discrete event dynamic systems (DEDSs) is multi-disciplinary in nature and its development has been dynamic. Examples of DEDSs include manufacturing plants, communication networks, computer systems, management information databases, logistics systems, command-control-communication systems, robotics, and other man-made operational systems. The state processes of such systems cannot be described by differential equations in general. The aim of this journal, Discrete Event Dynamic Systems: Theory and Applications, is to publish high-quality, peer-reviewed papers on the modeling and control of, and all other aspects related to, DEDSs. In particular, the journal publishes papers dealing with general theories and methodologies of DEDSs and their applications to any particular subject, including hybrid systems, as well as papers discussing practical problems from which some generally applicable DEDS theories or methodologies can be formulated; The scope of this journal is defined by its emphasis on discrete events and the dynamic nature of the systems and on their modeling, control and optimization.