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

Rewriting the “origin stories” of the Anthropocene

No geology is neutral, writes Kathryn Yusoff. Tracing the color line of the Anthropocene, A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None examines how the grammar of geology is foundational to establishing the extractive economies of subjective life and the earth under colonialism and slavery. Yusoff 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.

Forerunners is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital works. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.

• The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies
• Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene
• Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime
• Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Experimental Futures)
• The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
• Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements
• Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
• The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study
• Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
• In the Wake: On Blackness And Being