ABSTRACT
We develop the term “the Anthropo-obScene” to show how various discourses on “the Anthropocene” have created a set of stages that disavow certain voices and render some forms of acting (human, non-human, and more-than-human) off-stage. Examples include consensual narratives of adaptive, resilient, and geo-engineered governance, but also more-than-human ontologies that, in spite of their purported radicality, could lead to a problematic strengthening of techno-managerial discourse. With the Anthropo-obScene, we seek to interrupt the deepening of “immunological biopolitics” and a politicization of the socio-ecological conundrum we are in, while fully and radically embracing our interdependence with non-humans.
