Moderne Zeitlichkeiten und das Anthropozän

Abstract Framed by the difficulty of coming to terms with disruptive temporalities climate crisis, proposition Anthropocene invites a critical re-contextualization modern concepts time and subjectivity. The declaration human as an agent geological stratification both re-inscribes challenges temporal self-image western modernity anthropocentric narrative progress ontological supremacy. Establishing dialogue between historiography environmental humanities, this article embeds hypothesis in recent scholarship on pluralization suggests opportunities revisit decenter specific hegemonic preconceptions implications considering regimes universalist, yet contingent claims divergent conceptions being-in-time. Contextualized references emergence historicism late 19th century decolonial critiques that help frame articulation practice temporalized hegemony, provides stepping-stone introduction what it might mean pluralize times against backdrop Anthropocene.