La leggerezza del capitale. Intensificazione neoliberale del geontopotere, vulnerabilità della materia ed epistemologie femministe di fronte all’intrusione di Gaia

The paper analyses the neoliberal management of matter and waste from the perspective of feminist political theory. Although neoliberal rationality is based on the idea of dematerialisation, the optimisation of processes at a molecular level, and the systematic removal of negative externalities – here reconceptualised as «negative commons» –, feminist care theory provides a radical epistemological and political alternative. Drawing on the work of authors such as Isabelle Stengers, Elizabeth Povinelli, Kathryn Yusoff, Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Alexandre Monnin and Lorraine Code, the essay deconstructs the «geontopower» that has historically been used to separate the living from the inert in order to legitimise colonial and capitalist extractivism. The aim is to outline a politics of care, duration and maintenance. This is conceived as an alternative to the neoliberal logic of scaling, embracing the values of coexistence and responsibility towards a plural and contingent reality, as well as the relational repair of anthropogenic ruins.