In the very dark landscape of ecological thoughts, torn between collapsologist
pessimism and blind faith in technique, which seem to us to be two dead ends,Baptiste Morizot's book appears like a ray of sunshine. Finally a way out ! ----Baptiste Morizot is a philosopher of a particular genre; when he is not teachingor writing, he is a tracker. He spends entire days in nature, as close aspossible to the ground, watching for traces of passing animals, especiallywolves. This activity, which requires deep attention and a certain humility,nourishes his philosophical thought.It is time to put an end to the deadly fable of "man outside nature", he said.Modernity has desecrated the living, and in Western societies the only beingsallowed - and encouraged - to marvel at the perfection of a dragonfly's wing orthe ingenuity of the poplar reproductive system are children. To be an adult isto be disillusioned; it's thinking that everything around us obeys laws thatscientists are there to decode.What an impoverishment of our world and of our sensibilities! Far fromencouraging us to reconnect with a blissful admiration, which would be close to aform of religion, Morizot invites us to take better account of the spacepopulated with lives in which we have become accustomed to believing that we arealone. es to evolve. "We have a multitude of words, types of relationships, typesof affects to qualify relationships between humans, between collectives, betweeninstitutions, with technical objects or with works of art, but much less for ourrelationships at living."This state of affairs is both an effect and a cause of the ongoing ecologicalcrisis; by dint of looking at nature only as an inert thing, as a backdropagainst which our human interactions take place, we no longer take it intoaccount. And here is the door open to all exploitations, and to the totaldestruction of our living environments.It is therefore urgent to invent new relationships with the living, to preservethe possibility of a future on Earth, but also to do justice to the incrediblerichness of existing forms of life, as well as to the infinite capacity of thehuman being to decipher them.This is why this book is a real renewal in ecological thinking; without denyingthe terrible challenges we face, it shows us the way to a finally desirable future.interspecies diplomatWe must first remember that we too are animals and put our dependence on livingthings back at the center of our conceptions of the world. A real ontologicalbreak: from Judeo-Christianity to Freudianism, animality is conceived, in theWest, either as a bestiality that must be overcome, or as a form of purity thatmust be attained.Two apparently opposed poles which in reality only form the same conception ofthings, from which it is essential to move away. "To come out of the Civilized isnot to throw oneself into the Savage, any more than to come out of Progressimplies to give in to Collapse ; it is to get out of the opposition between the two."We must then learn to be in a position of "moral blurring", where one is a littletraitor to each one, to move towards a situation where all can live as best aspossible. And keep as a compass, not an objective but a question: how to ensurethat no one is harmed? Morizot draws on her experience in a device that combineswolf advocates and sheep breeders to show how difficult - and stimulating - it isto stand in the middle ground. ; in an action that would lead to a fair sharingof space, to the creation, constantly renewed, of an area where no one can takefull power. Where all cross, and live together: the human being, the otheranimals that are the sheep, the wolf. And the meadow, too.This moral posture that he defines at length seems fully compatible with ourlibertarian ideals of self-management. And if Morizot never uses these precisewords, it seems to us that the success of his book in the bookstore is good newsfor all those who hope tirelessly to one day build a society without oppression.Mélanie (UCL Grand-Paris sud)Baptiste Morizot, Ways to be alive, Actes Sud, February 2020, 324 pages, 22 euros.\https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Lire-Baptiste-Morizot-Manieres-d-etre-vivant_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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