The Anthropocene

Thinking in “Deep Geological Time” or Deep Libidinal Time

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8074014
AutoresAriel Salleh (0000-0002-4126-7284, autor de correspondencia)
Año2016
Volumen6
Número3
Páginas422-433
Fecha de publicación2016-07-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Critical Thought (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2159-8312 • E-ISSN: 2159-8312
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/21598282.2016.1197784
OpenAlexW2488784831
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12
Referencias citadas17

This essay offers a socialist feminist postcolonial interpretation of the Anthropocene concept as used in recent ecocriticism. In contesting the rigid positioning of Humanity over Nature, the paper draws on the Marxist psychoanalytic theory of non-identity in Theodor Adorno (1973 Adorno, T. 1973. Negative Dialectics. London: Routledge. [Google Scholar]) and Julia Kristeva (1973 Kristeva, J. 1973. “The System and the Speaking Subject.” Times Literary Supplement, October 12. [Google Scholar], 1977 Kristeva, J. 1977. La Revolution du Langage Poetique [The revolution of poetic language]. Paris: Editions du Seuil. [Google Scholar], 1978 Kristeva, J. 1978. Polylogue. Paris: Editions du Seuil.[Crossref] , [Google Scholar]). Making an ecofeminist contribution to the new field of environmental humanities, it engages critically with the perspective of prominent US scholar Timothy Morton (2012 Morton, T. 2012. “The Oedipal Logic of Ecological Awareness.” Environmental Humanities 1 (1): 7–21. doi: 10.1215/22011919-3609949[Crossref] , [Google Scholar]). Its embodied materialist argument is that contemporary Eurocentric institutions, science, and philosophies are indeed shaped by affect as Morton believes, but not in the way that he envisages. In addition, it is suggested that the socialist feminist postcolonial politics of ecofeminism is already challenging the inevitable universality of the Anthropocene by building an Earth Democracy with epistemologies of care. It is concluded that understanding the Anthropocene notion, a phenomenon that is profoundly gendered, requires more than thinking in “deep geological time.” Ultimately, all ecological awareness will demand a capacity for thinking in “deep libidinal time

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