Silence and the Face(s) of the Future: Toward an Interspecies, Interreligious Posthumanism

The politics of our moment lurch toward future(s) of climate disruption, mass extinction, global warfare, and social collapse with louder and louder denunciations, proclamations, and aggrandizements—nihilistic forms of nostalgia. If we recognize, building on Kathryn Yusoff’s A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None, that the apocalyptic roar of “anthropos” rushing headlong toward collapse has long been a voice that relies on un-earthing and burying of “unhuman” others (in both a racialized and speciated sense), perhaps the time has come to imagine a posthuman offramp that places trust in meaningful silences.