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# 114
The Past Is Yet to Come
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro and Déborah Danowski
When did things start to go wrong? It is hard not to ask that question nowadays. By “things” we mean, of course, “nous autres,” those civilizations that are now known to be mortal, as Valéry lamented in 1919, using a plural to speak of a singular, modern European civilization, whose future was the object of his deep concern. Today, this singular has become even more evidently and disturbingly a universal, the techno-spiritual monoculture of the species.
e-flux Journal
Posted: December 17, 2020
Category
Nature & Ecology
Subjects
Climate change, Anthropocene, Modernity, Postcolonial Theory
# 65
Is There Any World to Come?
Déborah Danowski and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro
The problem of the end of the world is always formulated as a separation or divergence, a divorce or orphaning resulting from the disappearance of one pole in the duality of world and inhabitant—the beings whose world it is. In our metaphysical tradition, this being tends to be the “human,” whether called Homo sapiens or Dasein . The disappearance may be due to either physical extinction or one pole’s absorption by the other, which leads to a change in the persisting one. We could…
e-flux Journal
Posted: May 1, 2015
Category
Indigenous Issues & Indigeneity, Religion & Spirituality
Subjects
Futures, Human - Nonhuman Relations