Geologic life : inhuman intimacies and the geophysics of race
Kathryn Yusoff
Bok · Engelsk · 2024
| Omfang | x, 597 sider : illustrasjoner
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| Opplysninger | Insurgent geology and fugitive life -- Rift theory -- Underground aesthetics -- "Fathering" geology -- Geologic grammars -- Stratigraphic thought and the metaphysics of the strata -- Geopower : materialisms before biopolitics -- Inhuman matters I: Black earth and abyssal futurity -- Inhuman matters II: Deep timing and undergrounding in the Carceral Mine -- Inhuman matters III: Stealing suns -- Inhuman matters IV: Modernity, urbanism and the spatial fix of whiteness -- Inhuman matters V: Trees of life (and death), "Strange fruit" and geologies of race -- Ghost geology.. - "Geologic Life provides a magisterial account of the specific processes by which race and racialization emerged geologically. Building on the core idea first explored in her breakout short book A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None--that race is as much a geological formation as a biological one--Kathryn Yusoff develops a spatial account of racialization based on rifts and plateaus, what she calls "the stratigraphic imagination"; that structured Enlightenment thought and its colonial conceptions of the world. The book provides a deep and detailed reconsideration of core figures (Louis Agassiz, James Hutton, Georges Cuvier, and others) from the emergence of Enlightenment and colonial sciences in the 17th-20th centuries to show how colonial geology (as the classification of the origins of earth and beings) organized, and continues to underpin, racialized accounts of space and time"--
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| ISBN | 9781478026075. - 9781478030300
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