Ecology extends sacred Territory thought earthward or turns critical as politics

Evidence

Ecology, going above and beyond its concerns with what we calI the environment, seems to us to represent mankind’s drive to extend to the planet Earth the former sacred thought of Terri tory. Thus, it has a double orientation: either it can be conceived of as a by-product of this sacred and in this case he experienced as mysticisrn, or else this extending thought will bear the germ of criticism of territorial thought (ofits sacredness and exc1usiveness), so that ecologywilI then act as poli tics. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 738

Categorization

• DEFINE: Key definition of ecology’s double orientation that Glissant will deploy throughout.
• QUESTION: Does this fork resolve toward politics in Glissant’s scheme, or stay an open oscillation?
• XREF: connects to: Bioregional spiritual geography forgets the transnational harms America causes — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 730; Critical theory has an inner political dynamic demanding concrete positions — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2671

Broader Connections

• Bioregional spiritual geography forgets the transnational harms America causes #expands (0.75) — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 730
• Critical theory has an inner political dynamic demanding concrete positions #expands (0.72) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2671