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Allochronie im Anthropozän: Ein Gespräch mit Erhard Schüttpelz

Author(s): Schüttpelz, ErhardSteglich, SinaIngwersen, Moritz

Abstract

Against the backdrop of the climate crisis and Anthropocene injustices, this conversation unfolds the concept of allochrony to examine modernity as a temporal regime that relied on the attribution of non-simultaneity to the populations of western colonies under the ethnographic gaze of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Positioning the racialized signifier of “the primitive” as a key concept and foil in understanding the articulation of modern subjectivity around 1900, modern temporalities are grounded in the construction of a temporal hierarchy that legitimized the dispossession of land and oppression of Indigenous peoples at the height of European imperialism. Drawing on cultural anthropology, media theory, and the history of science, this conversation provides a critical assessment of the Anthropocene by foregrounding the colonial violence and inherent paradoxes of modern epistemologies as a function of temporal categorization.

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Schüttpelz, Erhard; Steglich, Sina; Ingwersen, Moritz: Allochronie im Anthropozän: Ein Gespräch mit Erhard Schüttpelz. In: Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift, Jg. (2022), Nr. 1, S. 107-122. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/21846.
@ARTICLE{Schüttpelz2022,
 author = {Schüttpelz, Erhard and Steglich, Sina and Ingwersen, Moritz},
 title = {Allochronie im Anthropozän: Ein Gespräch mit Erhard Schüttpelz},
 year = 2022,
 doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/21846}",
 address = {Berlin},
 journal = {Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift},
 number = 1,
 pages = {107--122},
}
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