ABSTRACT
Nausicaa is a work of critical reflection, restless in its traversing of humanity's situation on the planet within the unfolding complexities of sovereignty and ecological revival. This chapter explains the landscape of Earth jurisprudence as articulated and challenged through Nausicaa. One of the foundational arguments of Earth jurisprudence is the shift from anthropocentrism to ecocentrism: the reorientation of legal thought towards the good of the broad 'Earth community' rather than just the narrow 'human' community. The chapter focuses on the suspension of human/nature distinctions in Nausicaa's relationship with Agamben's concept of the anthropological machine. In the anthropological machine, an entity is neither human nor animal – it is under an exception, exposed as bare life to the decisional power of sovereignty that determines its status. Accordingly, the ecocentric judgment of the God Warriors on the Seven Days of Fire is denied by Nausicaa as a form of instrumentalisation that does not accept our fragile place in the abyss of nature.
