Kako artikulisati klimatsku varijabilnost? Antropocen, pravo i „parlament stvari"
How to Articulate Climate Variability? The Anthropocene, Law and the “Parliament of Things”

Author(s): Stefan S. Janković
Subject(s): Politics, Economy, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Energy and Environmental Studies, Environmental and Energy policy
Published by: Институт друштвених наука
Keywords: Anthropocene; Law; Climate Variability; Sovereignty; parliament of things
Summary/Abstract: After a wave of indications on anthropogenic sources of climate change, a complicated encounter with a shifting landscape of the Earth sparked a cascade of political, legal and ethical issues. Inception of novel ecological sensibility, as a direct response to the predicament signalled by the robust concept of Anthropocene, have also hinted at necessity to rethink the normative frameworks in heterodox manner, in order to encounter with unpredictable climate scenarios, porous materiality and non-human entities. This paper explores exactly the possibility of non-human entities attaining legal subjectivity. Starting from a “diagnosis” of international law by Carl Schmitt and profound mythological roots of the nomos which enabled the precedence over land, this paper first depicts a crisis of normative framework to articulate climate-induced problems. As being emphasized in the second section, security responses to climate variability, such as erosive territoriality, territorial disputes, climate migration and (in)justice, largely remain anthropocentric. Thus, in the third section, the paper engages with recent debates which offer an innovative design for relations between species and consequently induce new principles of obligations, responsibilities and relationships, exceeding the narrow format of rights, sovereignty and political autonomy. Lastly, the paper explores the possibility of building a new “constitution”. “Parliament of things”, a concept proposed by Bruno Latour, in this regard presents an interesting speculation on the possibility to provide a legal status to non-human entities and present their political significance in an exterritorial manner.

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