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How can life writing, a genre so intimately tied to the human perspective and thus presumably human-centered qua definition, provide adequate perspectives for an age in which humanity’s self-centeredness is considered the driving force behind ecological disasters and global climate change? To reflect the destructive consequences of human behavior on this planet, Eugene Stoermer introduced the term “Anthropocene”:1 Derived from the Greek word for human (anthropos), it acknowledges that our current geological epoch is marked by lasting human impact on Earth’s geology and its ecosystems. While this terminological intervention certainly reinforces humanity’s centrality, in recent years, its adoption into scientific discourse was frequently accompanied by a call to rethink and challenge the role of the human on Earth: not only in the Natural Sciences but specifically in the Humanities, anthropocentric understandings of humans’ allegedly unique subject position have rightfully come under scrutiny. The perhaps severest criticism in this regard has come from the fields of posthumanism and material ecocriticism, where scholars are interested in theorizing beyond the human as well as in critically assessing and dismantling the “exceptional” status that humans have continually attributed to themselves. Some go as far as to propose a philosophy that integrates humans with animate and inanimate matter as one species among many, without any prioritization.