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Subjectivity and transcendental illusions in the Anthropocene

Helena De Preester (UGent)
(2022) FOUNDATIONS OF SCIENCE. 27(1). p.125-140
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This contribution focuses on one member in particular of the anthropocenic triad Earth - technology - humankind, namely the current form of human subjectivity that characterizes humankind in the Anthropocene. Because knowledge, desire and behavior are always embedded in a particular form of subjectivity, it makes sense to look at the current subjective structure that embeds knowledge, desire and behavior. We want to move beyond the common psychological explanations that subjects are unable to correctly assess the consequences of their current technological lifestyle or unable to change their lifestyle because well-intended behavior is modified by factors such as laziness, lack of knowledge, seduction by convenience, etc. Instead, we will argue from a philosophical point of view that transcendental illusions play a central role in a contemporary account of subjectivity. Consumerism is considered as a means of not becoming a subject and framed in a profound ambivalence at the heart of our acting (consuming) against better knowledge. We appeal to collective transcendental conditions of subjectivity in the Anthropocene in terms of illusions without owners - a term borrowed from Robert Pfaller's work on interpassivity. Central in our account is the idea that illusions without owners are the conditions of possibility for the disconnection between knowledge and behavior - the characteristic par excellence of the Anthropocene.
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Subjectivity, Anthropocene, Consumerism, Ambivalence, Illusions without, owners, Commodification

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De Preester, Helena. “Subjectivity and Transcendental Illusions in the Anthropocene.” FOUNDATIONS OF SCIENCE, vol. 27, no. 1, 2022, pp. 125–40, doi:10.1007/s10699-020-09733-6.
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De Preester, H. (2022). Subjectivity and transcendental illusions in the Anthropocene. FOUNDATIONS OF SCIENCE, 27(1), 125–140. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-020-09733-6
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De Preester, Helena. 2022. “Subjectivity and Transcendental Illusions in the Anthropocene.” FOUNDATIONS OF SCIENCE 27 (1): 125–40. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-020-09733-6.
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De Preester, Helena. 2022. “Subjectivity and Transcendental Illusions in the Anthropocene.” FOUNDATIONS OF SCIENCE 27 (1): 125–140. doi:10.1007/s10699-020-09733-6.
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De Preester H. Subjectivity and transcendental illusions in the Anthropocene. FOUNDATIONS OF SCIENCE. 2022;27(1):125–40.
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H. De Preester, “Subjectivity and transcendental illusions in the Anthropocene,” FOUNDATIONS OF SCIENCE, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 125–140, 2022.
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  url          = {{http://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-020-09733-6}},
  volume       = {{27}},
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