Life-death

Spirits and specters as a lineage of struggle

Abstract

What do indigenous struggles tell us in their long duration? The text begins with the climate crisis, a long-standing warning from indigenous scientists, and then studies cosmopolitics (since the rigid division between nature and culture does not operate), the resistance of humans and non-humans against the destruction of socio-environmental worlds. The article then analyzes how these fundamental Amerindian characteristics allow a minor lineage of the revolutionary tradition (with its agency of spirits and specters) to emerge and concludes with accounts of survival, vital for our times.