About time: climate change and inventions of the decolonial, planetarity and radical existence

Abstract

This article focuses on the underlying transformation produced by social ecological crisis– a transformation in the time scales for human agency. First, we trace how authors who conjunct readings on the question of climate change and time open up the space to question the race-based temporal technologies and their entanglement with racial planetary-capital regimes. Second, we engage with transition and adaptation. Transition and adaptation are colonial and accumulation temporal enabling conditions for the emergence, development and transmutation of the incommensurate to capitalization of the planetary. Finally, we conclude by arguing that, instead of focusing on capital's attempts to make its most ‘fatal leap’ between its assumed logical topologies and ‘historical’ cartographies by reanimating ‘dead’ critiques, we follow Fanon and attempt to introduce ‘invention into existence,’ the reactivation of living energies, their flux, and their improvisations for the conditions for a planetary as a decolonial project, not as an accomplished fact.