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Labor as Action: the Human Condition in the Anthropocene
2020
Abstract The Anthropocene has become an umbrella term for the disastrous transgression of ecological safety boundaries by human societies. The impact of this new reality is yet to be fully registered by political theorists. In an attempt to recalibrate the categories of political thought, this article brings Hannah Arendt’s framework of The Human Condition (labor, work, action) into the gravitational pull of the Anthropocene and current knowledge about the Earth System. It elaborates the historical emergence of our capacity to “act in the mode of laboring” during fossil-fueled capitalist modernity, a form of agency relating to our collectively organized laboring processes reminiscent of the…
Ihmisen loppu ei ole maailmanloppu
2022
Viimeinen ihminen ei ole romaanina onnistuneimmillaan, mutta melodramaattisuudessaankin puhuttelee ajankohtaisilla aiheilla: millainen eläin on ihminen pandemian keskellä ja taidetta arvottaessaan? nonPeerReviewed
Dipesh Chakrabarty, The Climate of History in a Planetary Age
2022
Koronakriisi? Ei, tämä on ihmisyyden kriisi
2022
The Task of History
2023
Humanity and Its Beneficiaries : Footing and Stance-Taking in an International Criminal Trial
2019
This article elucidates the role of metapragmatic devices like footing and stance-taking in trial hearings before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. It focuses on the case of Ahmad al Faqi al Mahdi, a Malian Islamist found guilty of the 2012 destruction of cultural heritage in Timbuktu. We examine how the prosecution and defense reflexively formulate the hearing as part of a wider text trajectory and how they align personae across participation frameworks by locating the current courtroom event into a wider dialogical field. A careful inspection of these metapragmatic devices reveals how trial participants navigate the multiple tensions facing this emergent, amalgamated fo…