A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None (Forerunners: Ideas First)

by Kathryn Yusoff

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No geology is neutral. Tracing the color line of the Anthropocene, this book examines how the grammar of geology is foundational to establishing the extractive economies of subjective life and the earth under colonialism and slavery. The author initiates a transdisciplinary conversation between feminist black theory, geography, and the earth sciences, addressing the politics of the Anthropocene within the context of race, materiality, deep time, and the afterlives of geology.

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Amazing theory contextualising the historical, colonial, and racially violent underpinnings of the epochal term 'Anthropecene' — "no geology is neutral".

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