The article examines the global ecological crisis through the concept of the Narcissocene, understood as a psychopolitical dimension of the Anthropocene in which the neoliberal capitalist order reproduces a collective subjectivity marked by grandiosity, denial of limits, competitive individualism, and a diminished capacity for reciprocal relationships. Since conventional forms of resistance are either co-opted or repressed by power, the article argues for resistance to the subjectivity thus produced. It considers posthumanist and Indigenous ontologies, self-limitation, invisibility, awe, and heterotopic communal practices as holding potential for decentring the self and cultivating alternative forms of relationality. Such alternative subjectivities and practices can sustain forms of organisation, trust, and knowledge necessary for creating post-Narcissocene institutions and forms of coexistence grounded in interdependence, care, and reciprocity.
|
