从盖娅假说到COVID-19———评《封锁之后:一次蜕变》

From Gaia Hypothesis to COVID-19: Comments on “After Lockdown:A Metamorphosis”

新冠肺炎疫情在全球持续蔓延, 气候危机、环境问题、生态问题逐渐国际化、全球化, 气候问题的全球治理面临巨大挑战, 亟须进行变革。值此背景, 《封锁之后》一书通过对疫情期间人们生活状况的反思, 表现出社会个体在经历封锁后的蜕变过程, 运用哲学寓言及隐喻的形式讨论人类世界中存在的政治、伦理甚至宇宙学冲突, 从盖娅政治生态观的视角分析了人与自然之关系的本质, 探究人与自然关系合理性问题。作者强调, 地球上生命的实体正日益受到人类的控制与威胁, 需要重建人与自然、科学与政治、事实与价值等这些二元因素之间的内在关联, 探寻解决生态危机的良策。拉图尔以行动者网络理论为主线, 提出超越“强纲领”中的其他对称原则, 倡导开启行动 者议会、生态理想国, 发起重构盖娅的制度变革, 但并未就该制度建构的行动者的设置进行充分的论证与提供更多的细节。本书为在理解不同行动者活动状态和组合模式的基础上, 更好地构建人与自然的生命共同体, 提供了一种颇具启发的政治生态观。

The COVID-19 epidemic continues to spread around the world. The climate crisis, environmental problems and ecological problems are gradually internationalized and globalized. The global governance of climate problems is facing great challenges and needs to be reformed. Against this background, the book after the blockade reflects on people's living conditions during the epidemic period, showing the transformation process of social individuals after the blockade. It discusses the political, ethical and even cosmological conflicts in the human world in the form. of philosophical fables and metaphors, analyzes the essence of the relationship between man and nature from the perspective of Gaia's political ecological view, and explores the rationality of the relationship between man and nature. The author emphasizes that the life entity on the earth is increasingly controlled and threatened by human beings, and it is necessary to rebuild the internal relationship between human and nature, science and politics, facts and values, and to explore good solutions to the ecological crisis. Latour, taking the actor network theory as the main line, proposed to transcend other symmetry principles in the “strong program”, advocated the opening of the actor Parliament and the ecological Utopia, and initiated the institutional reform. of reconstructing Gaia. However, he did not fully demonstrate and provide more details on the setting of actors in the institutional construction. This book provides an enlightening political ecological view for better building the life community between human and nature on the basis of understanding the activity states and combination modes of different actors.