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.

• Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime
• Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene
• Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
• Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements
• The Hundreds
• The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study
• No Archive Will Restore You
• Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Experimental Futures)
• Poetics of Relation
• In the Wake: On Blackness and Being