Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Contemporary politics faces a coupled crisis: accelerating AI and intensifying ecological breakdown.This article argues that integrating posthumanism with green republicanism offers a coherent normative and institutional paradigm for governing the Anthropocene.Posthumanism decenters humans by treating humans, nonhuman animals, technologies, and abiotic environments as entangled participants in world-making, thereby expanding the community of justice.Green republicanism adapts civic republican ideals of the common good and freedom as nondomination to ecological limits and intergenerational responsibility, insisting that republican liberty is impossible on a degraded planet.To connect these frameworks, the article mobilizes new materialismespecially Barad's notion of intra-action-to reconceive agency as distributed across socio-ecological assemblages.Building on this ontology, it proposes an ecological republic in which nonhuman interests can be represented through guardianship models, rights-of-nature jurisprudence, and deliberative institutions informed by environmental sensing and carefully governed AI decision-support.The analysis addresses feasibility worries and the charge that posthuman inclusion dilutes human accountability, arguing instead for a republican ethics of stewardship that strengthens civic responsibility.The synthesis concludes by outlining a participatory, adaptive research agenda for sustainable and just governance.
Author: Sungjin Park
Institution: Gwangju National University of Education
Language: English
Subfield: Nature and Landscape Conservation
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W7127054926