Time to Call the Androcene

Whereas Anthropocene scientists emphasise 'deep geological time', social life is infused with another time, the metabolic pulse of materially embodied energies – libidinal and unconscious, intentional and judgmental. The Earth-wide changes classified today under ‘deep geological time’ actually have their motive source in the repression of ‘deep affective time’. If you want a transdisciplinary reading of the planetary polycrisis and a subliminal reading of The Anthropocene Imagination - this is the session for you. It is based on my book DeColonize EcoModernism! recently published with Bloomsbury, London. The work is part of a trilogy, which understands the patriarchal-colonial-capitalist system as a single political entity - The Androcene. This re-naming opens the way for a shared strategy of resistance among feminist, decolonial, socialist, and ecological movements. The trilogy delves into the deep structure of political ecology by examining how workers, women and indigenous peoples are each manipulated by an ontology of systemic dualisms. The Androcene is a vibrant historically evolved complex of patriarchal-colonial-capitalist privilege and rulemaking. Over millennia, it has expanded across the world from local civilizations and religious rites, through tribal invasions and imperial adventures, arriving at its modern capitalist phase some 500 years ago. DeColonise EcoModernism! focuses on where the action is right now; that is, the tensions between neoliberal ecological policy and global grassroots initiatives for change.