Lukásš Liikavčan .Digital Infrastructures and Militarised Environments
Digital Infrastructures and Militarised Environments

Spaces of Conflict in the (post-)Anthropocene

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10.31182/cubic.2018.1.012

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Militarisation, Habilitation, Cognitive Mapping, Sympoiesis, Digital Platforms

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This paper presents the idea of multispecies diplomacy on the background of unstable and violent political geographies of the Anthropocene. The idea is first defined in terms of associated notions of sympoiesis and habilitation. After the preliminary arrangement of the conceptual framework of the paper, the possibilities of multispecies diplomacy are assessed in relation to current militarisation of environment, that prevents any diplomatic solution of climate change and leads to increased environmental injustices worldwide. This is illustrated with an example of conflict in the Negev desert, where changing climate is inherently integrated into the structure of conflict. Secondly, digital infrastructures are identified as an ambiguous factor influencing the outlooks of future practices of multispecies diplomacy. Thanks to their capacity to redesign existing environment, they can act as forces of deterritorialisation that can either stabilise existing hegemonies or lead to subversive appropriation. As far as digital platforms are open to ideological reframing, ecosocialist politics engaging in multispecies diplomacy is encouraged to appropriate them in terms of cognitive mapping and habilitation.

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Likavčan, L. (2018). Digital Infrastructures and Militarised Environments: Spaces of Conflict in the (post-)Anthropocene. Cubic Journal, 1(1), 196–209. https://doi.org/10.31182/cubic.2018.1.012

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2018-04-29

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No. 1: DESIGN SOCIAL: Technology . Activism . Anti-social

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Lukáš Likavčan, Masaryk University

Lukáš Likavčan is a doctoral candidate at the Department of Environmental Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Masaryk University (Brno, Czech Republic). He studied philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, Masaryk University, and sociology at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul. He had been appointed as a visiting researcher at Department of Socioeconomics, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien and at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Design. He works within a paradigm of materialist, post-Marxist and post-structuralist philosophy, philosophy of technology, political economy and political ecology. His dissertation project focuses on political and technological imagination of post-work and post-capitalist societies.

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