Allen-Paisant, J orcid.org/0000-0002-5705-0522 (2021) Animist Time and the White Anthropocene. New Formations: a journal of culture/theory/politics, 104/105. pp. 30-49. ISSN 0950-2378
Abstract
This article considers the Western civilizational ethos of the human person as an ethos of mastery with respect to the natural world. The age of climate disaster has begun to turn this ethos into an object for thought, as is evidenced by an increasing number of eco-poetic and eco-philosophical writings and reflections that seek to re-think or un-think prevailing Western construals of the human. My own entry point into the conversation is through Afro-diasporic knowledge systems that evidence construals of the human being not rooted in the Western paradigm of the individual. I ask how such knowledge systems help us to achieve a necessary thought revolution with respect to the current dangers of our technological civilisation (particularly climate disaster and capitalist extractivism). I emphasise the fact that animist thinking systems have for centuries, due to the violences of modernity, existed in a parallel space and time to what I call ‘capitalist time’ and propose that the failures and crises of Western industrial/technological civilisation warrant renewed examinations of their benefits in human living practices.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | This is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. This is an author produced version of an article published in New Formations. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Languages Cultures & Societies (Leeds) > French (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number Leverhulme Trust ECF-2016-536 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 18 Nov 2021 12:14 |
Last Modified: | 25 Jun 2023 22:49 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Lawrence Wishart |
Identification Number: | 10.3898/NewF:103-104.02.2021 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:180246 |