ABSTRACT

This paper interrogates how the two major competing frameworks in the debates over framing our geological epoch – the Anthropocene and the Capitalocene – are unified in the reproduction of a Eurocentric assumption that functions to confirm the historical priority of Euro-Western geological agency, the corollary of which is the rendering derivative of non-European peoples as lacking in such capacity until mobilized by Euro-Western forces. Rather than assume that humanity in general, or colonial capitalism more specifically, has generated a novel geological epoch by disrupting the ‘natural’ temporal divide between deep geological time, medium run biological time, and human history, this paper argues for a more co-constitutive relation between geological, biological, and social space-times. Locating ourselves within an irreducible socio-bio-geological space-time, we re-encounter the earth as multiple earth-worldings co-constituted by Indigenous and Black peoples in ways that precede, and exceed, the hitherto understood to be ‘originary’ geological capacity of Euro-Western colonial capitalism.

摘要

本文探讨了关于构建我们的地质时代的辩论中的两个主要竞争框架——人类世和资本世——如何统一在以欧洲为中心的假设的再现中，该假设的作用是确认欧洲-西方地质机构的历史优先权，其推论是这是非欧洲人民在被欧洲-西方力量动员之前缺乏这种能力的渲染衍生物。与其假设人类总体上，或者更具体地说是殖民资本主义，通过破坏深层地质时间、中期生物时间和人类历史之间的“自然”时间鸿沟，已经产生了一个新的地质时代，本文主张更共同地地质、生物和社会时空之间的本构关系。