Luca Martin
MA by Research
English and Theatre Studies
Luca is a Master of Arts student who writes on post-structuralism, environmental philosophy, and anarchist political theory. His master’s thesis examines the links between the state-form and anthropocentrism, advocating an anarchist reading of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s geophilosophy. He has previously written on Martin Heidegger and the Deep Ecology movement and continues to volunteer his time in Melbourne’s left-wing communities.
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Thesis
Between Territory and the Earth: Geophilosophy and the Grounds of the State
This thesis advances a geophilosophical account of the relation between climate collapse, anthropocentrism, and the State. Through a reading of geophilosophical literature, this thesis critically assesses the distributions of power that underlie the politics of the climate crisis, which implicitly posit an originary principle from which the power and legitimacy of State structures derive – what I call “archism”. It is argued that the logic of archism reproduces itself through narrative framings of the crisis, necessarily limiting how understandings of and responses to the crisis can be conceived.
Research interests
- Post-Structuralism
- Geophilosophy
- Anarchism
- Environmental Philosophy