ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to help seize the potential for the Anthropocene to contribute to that radical rethink, rather than resediment Cartesian modernity. It focuses on the figure of the human. The chapter discusses posthumanist, in the sense defined by Sundberg, that it 'refuses to treat the human as an ontological given, the privileged if not the only actor of consequence and disembodied and autonomous, separate from the world of nature and animality'. Australian evidence and perspectives provide an important place from which to contribute to these radical rethinks. The chapter presents this by first revisiting Kay Anderson's work, and then going on to the question of relational, more-than-human and Bawaka Country politics. In some situations, anthropogenic loss of native species and anthropogenic introductions interact to increase species richness in regional landscapes, even while global biodiversity is thinning.
