ABSTRACT

My response to Michael Rustin’s chapter is in three parts. First, I offer some thoughts about his mode of argument, including his way of characterizing positions other than his own, and relate this to some further questions about the sort of illumination that psychoanalytic modes of thought might offer. Second, I have some questions about the alternative perspective that he derives from Latour. Third, and most important, I express some reservations about the conclusions Rustin draws for the issue of climate change and possible or desirable ways of addressing it.