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Articles from Acta Academica: Critical views on society, culture and politics
Ecomodernism – defending a new humanist approach to nature
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I defend here Luc Ferry’s new humanist approach to nature, ecomodernism, outlined in his Les Sept Ecologies (2021). Ferry’s notion of a “second humanism” takes into account...
Critical theory and human nature: Hartmut Rosa’s resonance theory from an evolutionary-anthropological perspective
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In one of the major contributions to current Critical Theory in the 21st century, Hartmut Rosa employs the notion of resonant subject-world-relationships to critically analyse stru...
The nature of communication and the communication of nature: revisiting critical theory and nature through decolonial environmental communication and human rights education in Brazil
<jats:p>The ways in which Western capitalist societies have exploited communication practices and media are similar to the exploitation and instrumentalisation of nature. In this paper, we want ...
Women’s precarity in a globalised world: an ecofeminist perspective
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As French philosopher, anthropologist and sociolo gist Bruno Latour noted, “[f]rom the time the term ‘politics’ was invented, every type of politics has been defined by its re...