Abstract
The present article examines Priya Sarukkai Chabria’s Clone (2018) as a diffractive reworking of time, a performance of spacetime (re)configuring and speculated im/possibilities. It contests the humanist convictions of relations, time, space, matter and meaning by bringing to the fore an articulation of feminist new materialist time-being and its relational embeddedness, which consolidate the possibility of tracing the practices of historical erasure, cultural amnesia and political avoidance. Probing through the questions of history, memory and materiality, the study posits re-membering as a counterpolitics to museum history and anthropocentric ratiocination while it narrativizes re-turning and travel-hopping as the embodied material labor of undoing the hegemonic propensity. The article extends its inquiry beyond the novel’s narrative construct that heightens the idiosyncrasies of a throwaway society, offering insights into state-led biopolitics, neo-cannibalism and consumerist expropriation of the biotechnological beings into disposable trash. By engaging with Chabria’s Clone (2018), this treatise contributes to a relational understanding of multifarious ontological, ethical and existential implications inherent in the post-anthropocentric symbiosis of naturecultures, human-nonhuman and matter-meaning, albeit highlighting the activism of re-membering as equitably about new agentic configurations, new entangled subjectivities, new im/possibilities and ecosystemic inclusive mattering.
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