The notion of the Anthropocene has become an instrumental backdrop against which post-foundational social theory and political research frame political action in a way that defies modern certainty and, somewhat paradoxically, anthropocentrism, under conditions of drastic ecological changes. But what exactly is the theoretical promise of the Anthropocene? This paper seeks to explore what the concept can offer to critical social science and, conversely, how these critical approaches define and locate the analytical and the political purchase of the Anthropocene, through the critical lens of Indigenous scholarship. The paper genealogically retraces the transition from a science-led, discontinuous-descriptive to a continuous-ontological conceptualization of the Anthropocene. It then unpacks how the notions of ecological relationality and non-human agency deployed in the latter closely parallel certain lines of argumentation in Indigenous thought and politics. Drawing on critical Indigenous studies, the paper formulates a critique of how relational perspectives enfold alternative ontologies and politics within an overarching Anthropocene ontology that is not only problematically universalizing, but also replaces the genuine engagement with differences and resistance.

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人类世的政治：时间性、生态学和土著性

人类世的概念已经成为一个工具背景，在这种背景下，后基础社会理论和政治研究以一种挑战现代确定性的方式构建政治行动，有点自相矛盾的是，在剧烈的生态变化条件下，人类中心主义。但是，人类世的理论承诺究竟是什么？本文旨在探索这一概念可以为批判性社会科学提供什么，以及相反，这些批判性方法如何通过土着学术的批判性视角来定义和定位人类世的分析和政治购买。这篇论文从谱系上追溯了人类世从以科学为主导的、不连续的描述性到连续的本体论概念化的转变。然后，它揭示了在后者中部署的生态关系和非人类机构的概念如何与土著思想和政治中的某些论点密切相关。本文借鉴批判性的土著研究，对关系视角如何在一个总体人类世本体论中包含替代本体论和政治进行了批判，该本体论不仅在问题上普遍化，而且还以差异和抵抗取代了真正的参与。