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Shame as a geophilosophical force
1Département de Philosophie - EA ERRAPHIS, Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès, 5 Allée A. Machado, 31058 Toulouse Cedex 9, France.
Abstract:
In this article, I argue that Deleuze and Guattari's famous trope about "an earth and a people that are lacking" in the Geophilosophy chapter of What Is Philosophy? must be examined through a specific assemblage: the necessity for shame-as a powerful, non-psychological, and nonhuman affect-to enter philosophy itself both to resist stupidity and to include all the disfranchised of classical Reason. I then turn to Isabelle Stengers' work against stupidity to determine how this assemblage can help us give shape to new multispecies apparatuses in the face of the Anthropocene. As a conclusion, I show that, through such apparatuses, shame truly becomes a geophilosophical force.
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