Danowski & Viveiros de Castro's 'Esiste un mondo a venire?' Explores Apocalypse Beyond Eurocentrism

In 'Esiste un mondo a venire? Saggio sulle paure della fine' (Nottetempo, 2017), philosopher Déborah Danowski and anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro reject both the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (as per Alan Weisman) and accelerationism (Robin Mackay, Armen Avanessian). Instead, they propose a third path: looking to Amazonian Amerindian peoples, who have survived five centuries of colonial apocalypse. The book draws on films like Lars von Trier's 'Melancholia', novels by Cormac McCarthy, Philip K. Dick, and H. P. Lovecraft, and references Bruno Latour and Ray Brassier. Thom Yorke's warning that 'it is really happening' underscores the urgency. The authors argue that climate change and the Anthropocene demand a lateral, multifocal perspective, freeing thought from Eurocentrism. Published in Artribune Magazine #48, the essay is a political text confronting the 'ontology of our actuality' and the 'no future' claim.