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Kathryn Yusoff: A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None (2018, Univ Of Minnesota Press)

No geology is neutral, writes Kathryn Yusoff. Tracing the color line of the Anthropocene, A …

«The very “matter” of territorial impulse that materially comprised the Anthropocene is anti-Blackness; it is racialized matter that delivers the Anthropocene as a geologic event into the world, through mining, plantations, railroads, labor, and energy. While Blackness is the energy and flesh of the Anthropocene, it is excluded from the wealth of its accumulation. Rather, Blackness must absorb the excess of that surplus as toxicity, pollution, and intensification of storms. Again, and again.»

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