ABSTRACT
This chapter dives deeper into my argument for the productiveness of a modern, transcultural and (dis)enchanted conception of cosmos. While it is predicated on various traditional ideas and also draws on pre-modern thought, I propose that a modern, transcultural and (dis)enchanted understanding of cosmos is highly useful for understanding our zeitgeist—one that embraces diverse experiences of globalised modernity (such as hybridity, diaspora, urbanity), but one that nevertheless acknowledges the existence of a planetary ecosystem that creates a universal context. To illustrate this modern relevance, I explicate the recent ‘turn’ to new materialism (including its Indigenous critique), the transculturation of cosmos (using the example of Alexander von Humboldt) and a ‘(dis)enchanted’ cosmos (as linked to ‘low theory’).
