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Joined 3 years, 3 months ago

used to read a lot of books years ago, now my focus is kinda ruined but maybe this will help me a bit

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Kathryn Yusoff: A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None (2018, Univ Of Minnesota Press) 5 stars

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

«The imperative is to recognize the regime of offsetting—of carbon, ecosystems, deforestation, pollution, forced migration, land grabs, climate change—as a neocolonial enterprise that continues extraction through displacement of waste and the ongoing legacy of colonial “experiments.”»

«Through the categories of nonbeing, trajectories of colonial enterprise exclude the very subjects who make up the racialized strata of extraction and exposure. This flesh gets spiked by the Anthropocene.»

«The geologic claims on and in black and brown flesh establish stratigraphic traces that are both bone deep and intergenerational, marking bodies with nuclear radioisotopes and skin with codes of disposability in the proximity to power and toxicity. Precisely because modernity (and premodernity) is secured in a subjectivity that is inscripted at the onset in race, the diagnostic of the Anthropocene does not unleash any ethical crisis in liberal discourse about who is targeted by these material practices. What is at stake and what is on the front line are defined through the color line. The disembodied monuments and matter of the Golden Spike point but don’t name. This is why the Anthropocene is configured in a future tense rather than in recognition of the extinctions already undergone by black and indigenous peoples. Following in the wake of humanism, the production of the Anthropocene is predicated on Whiteness as the color of universality.»

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Kathryn Yusoff: A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None (2018, Univ Of Minnesota Press) 5 stars

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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Kathryn Yusoff: A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None (2018, Univ Of Minnesota Press) 5 stars

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

«The Anthropocene is a project initiated and executed through anti-Blackness and inhuman subjective modes, from 1492 to the present, and it cannot have any resolution through individuated liberal modes of subjectivity and subjugation. In short, that world must end for another relation to the earth to begin.»

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Kathryn Yusoff: A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None (2018, Univ Of Minnesota Press) 5 stars

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

«Black and brown death is the precondition of every Anthropocene origin story, and the grammar and graphia of this geology compose a regime for producing contemporary subjects and subtending settler colonialism.»

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