Article révisé par les pairs
| Résumé : | In this article, I propose to take up and give new relevance to an intuition that W. James developed in Pragmatism: « things tell a story». I take this proposition as literally as possible: a physical entity, a living being, a technical object, would tell stories by themselves, in the materiality of their existence, in their very bodies. The stories would not be about how humans relate to more-than-human realities, but they would be the very matrix of things. James called for a change of perspective: “The center of gravity of philosophy must therefore alter its place. The earth of things, long thrown into shadow by the glories of the upper ether, must resume its rights.” How to give back to the earthly things their rights? By which mode of knowledge would it be possible to follow these stories? This is a whole program that James announces with ontological, epistemological, and political dimensions, and that finds today, in the context of the “new climate regime,” all its relevance. |
