Decoloniality and Planetary Materialism: Supplementing Deleuze’s Radical Grammar with the Alterity of Sankhya
摘要
This chapter firstly attempts to explain why decoloniality and planetary materialism prefer to persist as conflicting ideological apparatuses. It does this with reference to Simone Bignall’s critical disclosure in her book post-human ecologies: complexity and process after Deleuze and by critically mapping the aspects of planetary materialism by likes of Dipesh Chakraborty. This chapter then attempts to come up with a new configuration of decoloniality. It does so in order to make two inter-related claims. First, it claims that the knowledge construction process in the West needs to necessitate and even demand its supplementation by the sites of non-western discourses. Second it claims that such a supplementation only indicates the latent potentiality and the contemporariness of non-western discourses. To exemplify this, it stages an interplay between the foundational Hindu religious philosophy such as Sankhya and Deleuze’s thinking.