More-than-humanizing the Anthropocene

Abstract

The concept ‘human’ has to be more-than-humanized, a project Abram initiated but left incomplete in his study of language. Doing so is a powerful antidote to some of the more anthropocentric consequences of Anthropocenic thinking. Crucial to this project is uncovering the ways in which human agency is permeated by and circulates within vast causal relationships. Shifting from ecologically destructive patterns suggests completing this phenomenological project by uncovering the sense that the ‘human’ is in no simple sense, ‘steering this vessel.’ Not even the pervasive and perpetual arrogance about our own powers is incontrovertibly ‘our own.’ Humility and awe before these wild and undomesticatable processes cycling through us and carrying us in their currents can correct hubristic assumptions about our power for good or evil, and thereby also perhaps these destructive patterns.

Ekososiaalinen kasvatus

“…Kyse ei ole vain siitä, miten ihmisen tulee muuttaa toimintaansa, vaan uudenlaisten maailmassa olemisen tapojen paikantamisesta. Antroposeenin ajan kasvatus edellyttää kykyä tunnistaa ihmisen ja muiden eliöiden välisiä monimutkaisia vuorovaikutussuhteita ja parantaa niissä tapahtuvaa vuorovaikutusta: toisin sanoen antroposeeni on "enemmän kuin inhimillistettävä" (Affifi 2016;Tsing ym. 2020).…”

Anthropocentrism’sfluid binary

“…For instance, meditation heightens awareness that thoughts and feelings are happening of their own accord. The self is challenged as a certain kind of causal centre (Affifi, 2016a). It is increasingly experienced not as an ongoing source of causal power independent of the material universe but as instead wrapped into a multitude of interacting processes.…”

Som en hand på axeln: beröring som posthumanistiskt feministiskt fenomen

“…Ramsey Affi fi hävdar till exempel att talet om antropocen -benämnandet av den nuvarande geologiska tidsåldern -är strängt antropocentriskt och upptaget av människans suveräna förmåga att förändra och förstöra världen. 57 Denna mänskliga självupptagenhet benämner Affi fi för 'antropoholic' eftersom människan är "addicted to a certain conception of unique and linear agency in the universe". 58 Avslutningsvis konstaterar Affi fi att antropoholism är ett tillstånd som alla människor lider av mer eller mindre.…”