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Paper short abstract:

Terrestrial resonance is merging concepts by Bruno Latour and Hartmut Rosa towards an epistemological framework for environmental praxiographies. It is supposed to transgress modernist dichotomies as rationality/romanticism and mediate in the epistemic conflicts of agricultural transformations.

Paper long abstract:

Agriculture and Farmers in Germany are under heavy transformative pressure. New regulations for climate and biodiversity protection, soil health and animal welfare are accompanied by a geopolitical crisis resulting in unreliable global markets and supply chains. The imaginary of a socio-ecologically transformed sustainable agriculture is dividing producers and consumers and political parties as much as the farmers coping strategies. The divide is also if not mainly a divide in (de-)legitimating knowledge cultures. While the environmental und geopolitical crisis is of high recency the divide runs along inherited modernist dichotomies that hinder not only the transformation but also the scientific understanding of such processes.

In the presentation I will focus in certain farming practices and the discursive binary of rationality and romanticism. While rational agriculture is referring to an economy and science based agricultural development some pioneer practices in regenerative Farming are rendered as romanticism. Two concepts that are inherited from late 18th and early 19th century. A period when classical economic theory and just institutionalised disciplines became the foundation for a rational reformation of traditional agricultural (knowledge) practices and was opposed by a counter culture criticising the alienating, objectifying and incapacitating effects of a pure rational mode of relating to oneself and the environment.

Terrestrial resonance is merging concepts by Bruno Latour and Hartmut Rosa towards an epistemological framework for environmental praxiographies. It is supposed to transgress modernist dichotomies as rationality/romanticism and mediate in the epistemic conflicts of agricultural transformations.