Catherine Malabou’s Eco-anarchism: Environnementalité and the Non-governable

Environnementalité and the Non-governable

Resumen

This paper argues that Catherine Malabou’s notion of the non-governable poses an unresolvable difficulty for Michel Foucault’s concept of Environnementalité, or what has come to be termed eco-governmentality. I show that, while Foucault’s analysis remains indispensable for ecophilosophy today, he nevertheless failed to deconstruct the insidious forms of modern sovereignty that he so clearly illuminated. I approach the problem from two angles presenting Foucault’s analyses of both the living being and the environment. I show that a hegemonic order dominates the body and, by extension, its surroundings. I then turn to Malabou’s incapacitation of these hegemonic orders that continue to devastate the ecological world. Malabou shows that the Earth itself is a volatile site of non-governability that deconstructs the incessant attempts of power to dominate it.