Overview

If the ecological catastrophe of our time endorses Fredric Jameson’s famous quote (1994) – “it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism” - in a frighteningly realistic sense, what does it mean to resist? In this seminar, I will discuss a concept of “resistance” that, rather than denoting an objection, points to new possibilities of living, thinking and acting - re-existing, according to the neologism coined by Viveiros de Castro (2015) - in and with E(e)arth and the other beings that cohabit it. This expanded conception - which I call, from the concept of Isabelle Stengers (2003) - of cosmopolitical resistances, because they consider in the political making of the agency of beings other than the human being - is thought from several experiences of “cohabitation”, ranging from those practiced by traditional peoples to recent phenomena of neo-peasantry, and through creations in the theoretical field that seek to make room for new imaginaries about other possible worlds.

Bio note

Alyne Costa is a Ph.D. candidate in Philosophy at PUC-Rio with research on Philosophy and the Environmental Issue, in which she researches human and other-than-human mobilisations of political resistance to ecological collapse. She is currently conducting a PhD internship in Philosophy at Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense. She holds a degree in Social Communication from the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) and a Master's degree in Philosophy from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). She is FAPERJ's Ten Degrees Scholar (2016-2018).