Rethinking “Decoloniality and Futurity” for 
 the Anthropocene: A Speculative Spectrality

Abstract

<p class="Abstract">What is this
 thing called the Anthropocene? The Anthropocene is a strange thing. It is
 interesting conceptually, fascinating scientifically, and critically intriguing
 for our understanding when experiencing the borderless uncanny world-earth
 meeting. If an ontological uncanny of natural crisis time represents the
 promise of [M]odernity, which civilisation has altered nature, even colonised
 Earth into terra incognita circumstances and catastrophic possibilities
 simultaneously. The word ‘decolonisation’ of Anthropocene means ignoring the
 role of the world-colonialism system and creating the worlding conditions after
 modernity progress. However, the objections of the Anthropocene do not separate
 calamities based on ideology, political movement, social class, cultural
 local-wisdom, or even philosophical doctrine. In the eye of a geological epoch,
 human is being objects at the same time. For example, after the Great
 Acceleration event, people unconsciously produced a new planetary risk through
 rapid uncontrolled population growth, advanced post-capitalism industrialisation,
 and other unseen anthropogenic activities. Should [All] Humans be responsible
 for mass extinction and be wise in adapting near planetary future? The answer
 is open-ended because all of us are always possible contributors to anthropogenic
 wastes, even in small amounts, as non-neutrality accumulation. So, we cannot
 really hide in the image of the decolonisation of the Anthropocene, although it
 challenges Western thought categories about geophysical force and geopolitical agents
 in postcolonial view. It has never been (geo) decolonised—dwelling on the
 Earth—but we are only possible to decolonise our humanity. The limitation of
 our perception grasps the real-uncertainty-materiality world, breaking the wall
 of narcissistic self-exceptionalism. Conceptually, decentering subject helps us
 feel the strangeness of non-human entities, opening a more-than-human possible
 world. Additionally, (re)questioning the status of ‘Anthropos’ in the
 Anthropocene is critically important to remind us that it is part of our
 concern to consider the prospect of new interrelations between human and
 non-human. To do so, the recent revival of new weird materialism and
 speculative turn can open up the context of agency and materiality in the
 global Anthropocene.<o:p></o:p></p>