More-than-human
“The frenzy of moving more and more stuff around the world—fueled by growing human numbers and increasing affluence within a capitalist profit-driven system—is at the core of civilization’s superficial definition of ‘prosperity,’ and a death knell for the more-than-human world” (Crist 2013, 135n.16).
“A reconfigured cultural memory studies is needed in the face of radical changes in atmospheric, hydrospheric, lithospheric and biospheric conditions brought about by climate change that reveal the interconnectedness of human and more-than-human worlds through their mutual devastation” (Crownshaw 2016, 33).
“It is essential to develop a political analysis rooted in decolonizing nature, that is in helping the more-than-human world break free from the grip of capitalist economic dominance” (Demos 2025, 34).
“Entangled territories composed of heterogeneous beings (humans, animals, elements, plants, viruses, and many more more‑than‑humans) generate new problems of co‑existence. New politics of livability attentive to ontological divergence are sorely needed for a planet in transition” (Jensen 2025, 4).
References
Crist 2013
Crist, Eileen. “On the Poverty of Nomenclature.” Environmental Humanities 3 (2013): 129–47.
Crownshaw 2016
Crownshaw, Richard. “Cultural Memory Studies in the Epoch of the Anthropocene.” In Memory Unbound: Tracing the Dynamics of Memory Studies, ed. Lucy Bond, Stef Craps, and Pieter Vermeulen, 242–57. New York: Berghahn, 2016.
Demos 2025
“The Forest Continues to Be Colonized Today: An Interview with T. J. Demos.” In Forest Encounters, edited by Urška Jurman and Mateja Kurir, 30–41. Ljubljana and Berlin: Igor Zabel Association for Culture and Theory, 2025.
Jensen 2025
Jensen, Casper Bruun. “Introduction: Southern Anthropocenes.” In Southern Anthropocenes, edited by Casper Bruun Jensen, 1–19. London: Routledge, 2025.