I think for me one of the key meanings of “decolonizing time” is a coming to inhabit multiple temporalities, coming to inhabit enfolded and entangled times that are ontologically complex—a kind of being slow to come to ontological conclusions, a kind of slowing down of category work, so as to open up the contact zones of thinking. Marilyn Strathern taught me that it matters which thoughts think thoughts, that it matters which categories categorise categories. A kind of opening up the dangerous contact zones of ways of thinking and being that truly come from different kinds of experiences of living and dying. The contact zones that come from taking responsibility for and with each other, inheriting the trouble of colonial histories, inheriting the troubles of exterminations and extractions, but also inheriting the inventions of precious things—for example many of the things in the Enlightenment must never be lost from our planet again—inheriting the precious as well as the terrible and opening up categories. Learning to listen.

“Decolonizing time” involves the cultivation of the capacity to be still, to listen and not to be self-certain. It is to understand that colonial time might be defined as Plantationocene time, as the time...