Latour's object-orientated politics for a post-political age
Latour's object-orientated politics for a post-political age
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拉图尔后政治时代的面向对象的政治学
DOI：
10.1080/23269995.2015.1011915
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发表时间：
2016
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1.5
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Tsouvalis J
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Tsouvalis J
对拉图尔来说，政治意味着什么？或者，更确切地说，拉图尔的存在是政治的--谁或什么是他的政治主体？为了回答这些问题，本文比较了两种关于政治和政治的本质的思想：拉图尔的“丁政治学”（Dingpolitikor）的“对象导向的政治学”和后政治条件下的“后基础政治学”。拉图尔和后政治状态的批评者都认为，被排斥和被压迫的人会回来纠缠他们的压迫者，粉碎现代性和新自由主义的幻想，世界主义的理想。在这两种情况下，被排除在外的人掌握着政治变革的关键。然而，尽管后政治话语在很大程度上依赖于一个抽象的、普遍化的、缺席的人类主体作为解放性政治变革的代理人，但对拉图尔来说，破坏现代性二分法结构的被排除在外的是带来现实的多重存在和事物--具体的、各种纠缠的、翻译的、中介的、中介的行动者;准客体，或者他也称之为中介者。把这两种不同的方式思考政治和政治并排在一起，我的目的是表明，拉图尔的本体论基础的政治概念有更大的变革潜力比后基础帐户的后政治条件的建议。这些著作尽管有解放的意图，但往往停留在批评的层面，而缺乏关于如何构建一个更美好的共同世界的具体、务实建议的愿景。
What, for Latour, does politics mean? Or, to be more precise, whatbeingfor Latour is political –who or whatis his political subject? To try and answer these questions, this article compares two strands of thinking concerned with the nature of politics and the political: Latour'sDingpolitikor object-orientated politics and post-foundational political writings on the post-political condition. Both Latour and critics of the post-political condition hold that the excluded and suppressed come back to haunt their suppressors, shattering illusions of Modernity and neoliberal, cosmopolitan ideals. In both accounts, the excluded hold the key to political change. However, while post-political discourse relies heavily on an abstract, universalized, absent human subject as the agent of emancipatory political change, for Latour the excluded that undermine Modernity's dichotomous constitution are the multiple beings and things that bring reality forth – concrete, variously entangled, translated and translating, mediated and mediating actants; quasi-objects, or, as he also calls them, mediators. Bringing these two different ways of thinking about politics and the political alongside each other I aim to show that Latour's ontologically grounded conception of politics has far greater transformative potential than the proposals found in post-foundational accounts of the post-political condition. These writings, in spite of their emancipatory intent, tend to remain at the level of critique while falling short of a vision for concrete, pragmatic proposals of how to compose a better common world.