Mohamed Amer Meziane

Mohamed Amer Meziane is a philosopher and Assistant Professor at the Center for Middle East Studies at Brown University. He is the author of an acclaimed PhD dissertation on secularization as an effect of the “colonial encounter.” His work also explores the genealogy of the extractivism of contemporary “fossil states” and calls for a decolonial metaphysics embodied in an ecology that takes into account “that which exceeds” the Earth, thus going beyond the ontological turn of anthropology. He is the author of The States of the Earth: An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization, which won the Albertine Prize for non-fiction in 2023 after its French publication in 2021, was translated into English, and will be published by Verso in April 2024. His second book is titled At the Edge of the Worlds: Towards a Metaphysical Anthropology (Au bord des mondes, 2023), and he has written many articles for international magazines of the Global North and South. He is also a member of the editorial board of the journal Multitudes.