ABSTRACT
The invitation to think in the big-picture ways that Michel Serres seems to have in mind is to follow a lead beyond the human being per se, which postcolonial studies is now beginning to do, toward a more radically relational account of conflict, most especially of war, than traditionally anthropocentric ones. In Postcolonial Ecocriticism Graham Huggan and Helen Tiffin have made an important intervention, which is critical of the anthropomorphic dependencies of postcolonial studies as traditionally written. Their turn to ecology also hinges on a certain kind of greening, here in the direction of a post-humanist approach to the animal. Huggan and Tiffin's critique of anthropomorphism is useful here for bridging Human Terrain Systems (HTS), brain-machine-interface (BMI), and the futures of postcolonial studies. And considered in the light of object oriented ontology (OOO) theory, it will help in the analysis of intraobjective relationships the author wants to provide in Amitav Ghosh's Calcutta Chromosome.
