What does it mean to call our era the Anthropocene, an age defined by “humanity” as a geological force? This essay interrogates that name and the universal “we” it assumes. Tracing the entanglements of colonialism, slavery, racial capitalism and environmental extraction, it offers a philosophical counterhistory of the human and its others. Drawing on decolonial thought and philosophical genealogy, it asks whether rethinking our past might open the possibility of a more just e

Critical race theory (CRT) is based on the premises of pervasive racial inequality and a social constructionist (i.e. anti-essentialist) conception of race. It challenges the idea that the superficially colorblind nature of the law means the law is race-neutral. Amongst other things, critics of CRT have argued that it is an anti-scientific research program. But are these claims correct? To what extent have these pseudoscientific claims played a role in fomenting the backlash

"The abolitionist is calling for such a radical reform of society that we actually don’t know how humans will behave in that new future."

"It is no coincidence that sacrifice zones fall on Indigenous land and on places inhabited by majority Black populations."