Abstract What does it mean to think about race and gender in the Anthropocene? In collaboration with Achille Mbembé’s recent work, this article argues that the Anthropocene requires rethinking race and gender and that retheorizing race and gender might just offer avenues for mitigation and adaptation of/to radical ecological and cultural transformation. To understand how we arrived at the Anthropocene and how race and gender are implicated, the article first traces the emergence and articulation of race and gender alongside the discursive formations of colonialism, capitalism, and necropolitics. These relations, effected in the establishment of differential temporalities, catalyzed our arrival at the Anthropocene. The Anthropocene, we argue, marks the generalization of precarity that was once concentrated among those disempowered through perceived racial and gender differences. Turning to Mbembé’s radical humanism as antidote, we conclude the article with some rhetorical and ethical principles for (re)asserting the plurality of ontology, part of which is positioning rhetoric as a counterforce to the asymmetrical distributions of precarity. Rhetoric as an analytic for tracing necropolitics, rhetoric as an inventional resource for the rearticulation of racialized and gendered subjectivity, and rhetoric as a counterhegemonic challenge to necropolitical representation—these we argue are central to the future of the field in the age of the Anthropocene.

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人类世中的种族和性别理论

摘要 在人类世中思考种族和性别意味着什么？本文与 Achille Mbembé 最近的工作合作，认为人类世需要重新思考种族和性别，而重新理论化种族和性别可能只是为缓解和适应/适应激进的生态和文化转型提供途径。为了理解我们如何到达人类世以及种族和性别如何受到牵连，本文首先追溯了种族和性别的出现和阐述，以及殖民主义、资本主义和亡灵政治的话语形成。这些关系在不同时间性的建立中产生影响，催化了我们到达人类世。我们认为，人类世 标志着不稳定的普遍化，这种不稳定曾经集中在那些因种族和性别差异而被剥夺权利的人身上。转向 Mbembé 的激进人文主义作为解药，我们用一些修辞和伦理原则来结束这篇文章，以（重新）主张本体论的多元性，其中一部分是将修辞定位为对不稳定的不对称分布的反作用力。修辞学作为追踪死灵政治的分析工具，修辞学作为重新表述种族化和性别化主体的发明资源，以及修辞学作为对死灵政治表征的反霸权挑战——我们认为这些是人类世时代该领域未来的核心。我们用一些修辞和伦理原则来结束这篇文章，以（重新）主张本体论的多元性，其中一部分是将修辞定位为对不稳定的不对称分布的反作用力。修辞学作为追踪死灵政治的分析工具，修辞学作为重新表述种族化和性别化主体的发明资源，以及修辞学作为对死灵政治表征的反霸权挑战——我们认为这些是人类世时代该领域未来的核心。我们用一些修辞和伦理原则来结束这篇文章，以（重新）主张本体论的多元性，其中一部分是将修辞定位为对不稳定分布不对称的反作用力。修辞学作为追踪死灵政治的分析工具，修辞学作为重新表述种族化和性别化主体的发明资源，以及修辞学作为对死灵政治表征的反霸权挑战——我们认为这些是人类世时代该领域未来的核心。