ELEMENTS MATTER: NEW RELATIONALITIES IN COLONIAL MODERNITY.

This contribution takes into focus elements as scenes of thought in order to contest our colonial, anthropocentric and extractivist modernity: fires of burning fossil fuels, waves of the open sea, shores as the landscape of islands, clouds in the sky and beyond. We suggest that these motifs bear the possibility to examine the problems of our present as well as to develop other, differing and new relationalities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]