Author ORCID Identifier
0009-0007-2156-8956
Abstract
Gaia’s symbiotic imagery and the Anthropocene crisis characterize the early twenty-firstvcentury, shaping a historical consciousness where we are becoming Isabelle Stengers’sv“cosmopolitical idiots.” In this context, we practice “slowing down” and regeneration, always with historical specificities and intricate networks of relations. This paper reevaluates Aimé Césaire and Frantz Fanon’s vivid transcorporeal language, charged with the violent energy of resistance, through the lenses of symbiogenesis, metamorphosis, and hybridogenesis. I propose a nuanced understanding of postcoloniality that challenges normative notions of identity and violence, advocating for a nonlinear trans-species future. I emphasize the urgent need for a planetary postcolonial turn that embraces hybridity, symbiosis, and metamorphosis. The paper reimagines postcolonial identity as dynamic and multiscale. In conclusion, I analyze the irreducibility of violence and embracing the intricate entanglements of human and more-than-human worlds in a turbulent global landscape.
Recommended Citation
Chuang, Chun-Mei
(2025)
"Transversal Symbiogenesis: Mapping a Nonlinear Postcolonial Future,"
Kritika Kultura:
No.
46, Article 9.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13185/1656-152X.2158
Available at:
https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss46/9
