A (in)consciência da dimensão e da profundidade das raízes de uma sociedade patriarcal dentro de tod@s nós, fez borbulhar a vontade de um grupo de mulheres, a Matilha, se juntar e organizar umas Jornadas Feministas.

"Gaia is not like Nature, indifferent to our plight. Not exactly that She “cares for us”
like a Goddess or like Mother Nature of so much ecological New Age pamphlets;
not even like the Pachacama of Inca mythology recently resurrected as a
new object of Latin America politics. Although James Lovelock has often flirted
with metaphors of the divine, I find his exploration of Gaia’s indifference
much more troubling: because She is at once extraordinarily sensitiveto our
action and at the same time She follows goals which do not aim for our wellbeing
in the least. If Gaia is a goddess, She is one that we can easily put out of
whack while She in turn may exact the strangest sort of “revenge” (to borrow from
the title of Lovelock’s most strident book) by getting rid of us, “shivering us” out of
existence, so to speak. So in the end, She is too fragile to play the calming role of
old nature, too unconcerned by our destiny to be a Mother, too unable to be
propitiated by deals and sacrifices to be a Goddess."

"We realise that the sublime has evaporated as soon as we are no longer
taken as those puny humans overpowered by “nature” but, on the contrary, as a
collective giant that, in terms of terawatts, has scaled up so much that it has
become the main geological force shaping the Earth.
What is so ironic with this ...argument is that it comes just when vanguard
philosophers were speaking of our time as that of the “posthuman”; and just
at the time when other thinkers were proposing to call this same moment the
''end of history”. It seems that history as well as nature have more than one trick in
their bag, since we are now witnessing the speeding up and scaling up of history
not with a posthuman but rather with what should be called a post-natural twist! If
it is true that the “anthropos” is able to shape the Earth literally (and not only
metaphorically through its symbols), what we are now witnessing is
anthropomorphism on steroids."

"The great thing about Lovelock's Gaia is that it reacts, feels and might get rid
of us, without being ontologically unified. It is not a superorganism endowed
with any sort of unified agency. It is actually this total lack of unity that makes
Gaia politically interesting. She is not a sovereign power lording it over us.
Actually, in keeping with what I see as a healthy anthropocene philosophy, She
is no more unified an agency than is the human race that is supposed to occupy
the other side of the bridge. The symmetry is perfect since we don't know more
what She is made of than we know what we are made of. This is why
Gaia-in-us or us-in-Gaia, that is, this strange Moebius strip, is so well suited
to the task of composition. It has to be composed piece by piece, and so do we.
What has disappeared from the universe —at least the sublunar
portion of it— is continuity. Yes, She is the perfect trickster."

From: A lecture at the French Institute, London, November 2011 by B. Latour
http://bruno-latour.fr/