Abstract

LOSLIER, Marie. The separation from nature and separated subjects: critical investigations with Theodor W. Adorno and Françoise d'Eaubonne. Acta acad. (Bloemfontein, Online) [online]. 2024, vol.56, n.2, pp.30-48. ISSN 2415-0479.  https://doi.org/1038140/aa.v56i2.8970.

In this article I open a dialogue between Theodor W. Adorno and Françoise d'Eaubonne to analyse how the Western self-proclaimed separation from nature is indissociable from the naturalisation of separated others. I focus on the reification of the identity category "woman" as a cipher for explaining the collusion between domination and social reproduction. I argue that claims of separation are, at bottom, claims of domination associated with a repression of those claims. I end the paper by showing how designing a collective project of emancipation that incorporates the need for ecological balance is impossible without continuing the enterprises of denaturalisation, and without focusing on political agency and the liberation of subjectivities.

Keywords : separation; reification; gender; social reproduction; nature.

        · text in English     · English ( pdf )