Articles

Speculative Ecopoetics on ‘The Human’: With Suzanne Césaire, Édouard Glissant, and Audre Lorde

Authors

  • Emma Krone Radboud University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21827/krisis.44.1.40984

Keywords:

Ecopoetics, Caribbean philosophy, Suzanne Césaire, Édouard Glissant, Audre Lorde, The human

Abstract

Caribbean thinkers Suzanne Césaire and Édouard Glissant introduce their readers to more-than-human figures – the plant-human and beach walker respectively – that theorize new ways of being. Accompanied by an epistemological shift, the figures disrupt Western colonial binaries and render them inoperative. This paper argues via Audre Lorde’s work that we can understand these speculations on ‘the human’ as a double move of creating one’s being and a new (self-)understanding thereof. The result is an aesthetic strategy that enables experimentation with the category of the human, surpassing reductive universals.

Author Biography

Emma Krone, Radboud University

Emma Krone is a research master student in the Department of Philosophical Anthropology and Metaphysics at the Radboud University in Nijmegen, and a master student in Comparative Cultural Analysis at the University and University of Amsterdam, in Amsterdam. Her research primarily focuses on forms of poetics in decolonial frameworks.

Published

2024-06-06

How to Cite

Krone, Emma. 2024. “Speculative Ecopoetics on ‘The Human’: With Suzanne Césaire, Édouard Glissant, and Audre Lorde”. Krisis | Journal for Contemporary Philosophy 44 (1):19-36. https://doi.org/10.21827/krisis.44.1.40984.