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#338 Dipesh Chakrabarty: "Humanity needs to start seeing itself as not special"

#338 Dipesh Chakrabarty: "Humanity needs to start seeing itself as not special"

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Does the ecological catastrophy necessitate the provincialization of humanity itself?

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Climate overshoot, technological acceleration and end-time fascism:
Modernity is propelling the entire human race towards the brink of
destruction. To deal with the crises at hand, Dipesh Chakratbarty
argues, we need to find ways to go beyond the entrenched thought
systems, structures of domination and material infrastructures that
separate us from each other as well as from the web of life we
belong to. Known for his contributions to decolonial thought, the
historian later turned towards Earth System Science, arguing for
the decentering of human agency and rethinking of politics from
beyond the human vantage point. Dipesh Chakratbarty joins Dissens
to talk about the project of provincializing humanity, degrowth for
the uber rich and the indigineous experience as a source for
planetary liberation.