ABSTRACT
Beginning with broken words, the scholar considers what it would be to develop a restorative sense to the “Anthropocene.” What the scholar calls a “counter-sense” is a way of reading the “Anthropocene” through the criterion of anthroponomy, a prospective responsibility inclusive of humankind in its plurality, rather than a colonial causal claim. The scholar claims that this counter-sense produces a generative notion of the “Anthropocene.” Being decolonial, what does it call for? Focusing on decolonization of stolen lands and, through planetary processes, on the relation through lands with far future generations and morally considerable beings that are spatially remote, the scholar proposes thoughtfulness with lands as a criterion for the right to determine them. He calls this an allochthony condition and argues through it for landed autonomy-in-relationship. Any nation or any social process, such as capitalism, that is thoughtless with lands, passing them through land abstraction and draining them of relationship, loses its moral right to the land. This decolonizing conclusion, while idealistic, provides a morally accountable focus for anthroponomy as people involve it in the “Anthropocene.”
