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lichen

lichen@bookwyrm.social

Joined 4 years, 11 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)

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)

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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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 …

« Moving toward the idea of a billion Black Anthropocenes spotlights that which is already centered in the Anthropocene—race—and would refuse the structural Whiteness of the Anthropocene in its current formation, potentially toward other, more accountable, decolonized, geosocial futures. This is why the formulation is (after Silva) toward the idea of a billion Black Anthropocenes and not posed as an alter-cene, in any of its guises as Capitalocene, Chulthocene, Plantationocene, and so on. An idea of a Black Anthropocene poses the question as a redescription of the Anthropocene through the racializing assemblage from which it emerged, rather than claiming a space for Blackness within or outside the Anthropocene (which it is not my place to do precisely because of the colonial histories that have scripted and described the terms of Blackness). This would be to acknowledge how the pursuit of geology made race a technology at its inception. »

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