Beschreibung:
Kathryn Yusoff examines the history of geology as a discipline to theorize how race and racialization emerged from Western production of geologic knowledge.
Introduction. Coordinates (0°0' Longitude, 51°N Latitude) 1 Geologic Life Analytic 27 Geologic Life Lexicon 31 I. Geology’s Margins 1. Insurgent Geology and Fugitive Life 39 2. Rift Theory 77 3. Underground Aesthetics 97 II. Geologic Histories and Theories 4. “Fathering” Geology 121 5. Geologic Grammars 193 6. Stratigraphic Thought and the Metaphysics of the Strata 236 7. Geopower: Materialisms before Biopolitics 255 III. Inhuman Epistemologies 8. Inhuman Matters I: Black Earth and Abyssal Futurity 295 9. Inhuman Matter II: Deep Timing and Undergrounding in the Carceral Mine 343 10. Inhuman Matters III: Stealing Suns 378 11. Inhuman Matters IV: Modernity, Urbanism, and the Spatial Fix of Whiteness 401 12. Inhuman Matters V: Trees of Life (and Death), “Strange Fruit,” and Geologies of Race 438 IV. Paradigms of Geologic Life 13. Ghost Geology 477 Acknowledgments 497 Notes 501 References 559 Index 583