Description
The Anthropocene studies hail the new epoch as an opportunity to end modernity’s Cartesian dualism (Man vs. Nature) in order to revolutionize the human relationship with the non-human (e.g. create naturecultures). Propelled by the instabilities of the changing climate, thinkers studying object-oriented ontologies and process philosophy advocate for thinking relationally about politics as imbricated with the Earth system (the Gaia hypothesis). Accordingly, the Anthropocene represents an opportunity to investigate new ways of becoming, not being, with the world that is constantly changing.
The tools offered by the Anthropocene are examined in this research to offer a critical outlook on the imbrication of neo-liberal instabilities and the increasing role of techno-materialities in world politics. I engage with Hannah Arendt’s philosophy of nature and technology in order to tease out problems with the Anthropocene debate and then apply them to the study of drone violence. In that sense, this research tries to investigate how techno-materialities (drones), as relationalities that exert power, reconstitute the idea of the human in the age of the Anthropocene. Consequently, this research imparts a critique of drone violence from the standpoint of Arendtian intervention into the Anthropocene.
This research asks how we can use the knowledges produced by the Anthropocene to strengthen the critique in International Politics? It tries to answer this question by looking into how we can understand the human life as a process in the Anthropocene by engaging with instances where humans are turned into natural processes in operational spaces of drone violence?
