Credere in un Altro popolo. Immaginazione apocalittica e Antropocene

Abstract

Among the numerous fears and anxieties that beset our era, the Anthropocene, there one that sees it coinciding with the time of the end, the notorious apocalypse, reigns supreme. In this study it will be tried to investigate this hypothesis declining it along a double path: firstly by identifying the plausibility of this convergence in the apocalyptic imagination, immediately afterwards proceeding to rethink it through an «allotreptic approach» of the Anthropocene (cfr. Selvamony 2022), that is oriented towards the Other. The latter must be understood as an entangled system whose functioning and survival are guaranteed by the incessant interaction of the organic and inorganic elements that compose it. But the Other must also be understood as a full, non-Western, postcolonial, indigenous and wild humanity. And it is precisely in this new image of the Other that hope can reside, or at least, the intention of a new world, of a new people, of an Other people.