![]() The epistemic sediment within which this subject is steeped reflects the temporal discipline and ontological categorisation of matter central to modernity, in accordance with which the human and the inhuman are demarcated and the appropriative and extractive impulses of empire are made manifest in the rights-bearing subject of modern law. The figure of the anthropos – the foundational and universalised humanity distilled in the (male) sovereign subject – is simultaneously expanded and contracted by the constitutive tensions of the Anthropocene. ![]() The concept of the Anthropocene returns us yet again to the question of the human, and to the ways in which subjectivity is constructed and rendered meaningful. ![]() While this law does not literally 'fossilize', its archive can be imagined as comprising both geologic and epistemic sediment. The Anthropocene, as both a scientific thesis and a critical provocation, prompts a reckoning with the epistemological archive of modern law. ![]()
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