ISBN:
981-9997-61-5
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (583 pages)
Edition:
First edition.
DDC:
304.2
Keywords:
Geology, Stratigraphic Anthropocene.
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Knowledge, Theory of.
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Ontology.
Description / Table of Contents:
Intro -- Foreword -- Works Cited -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- 1 Introduction -- What is the post-Anthropocene? -- The Black Outdoors, Spatial Difference, and the Post-Anthropocene -- Relational Ontology, Death, and the Maternal -- How I Got Over: On Black Tomorrows -- Sovereignty in the Capitalocene as the Crucible of Difference in the Post-Anthropocene -- Measuring the State in the Late Anthropocene -- Speculative Fiction as Lens on 'Staying Human in the Cataclysm' -- On Science- and Speculative Fiction -- Speculating on the Ethics of the New Materialism of Thinking Machines and Alien Encounters -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Part I Relational Ontology, Death, and the Maternal -- 2 Part One. The Maternal ≠ {Mother + Child}: Relational Ontology and the Mattering of Black Lives (Planetary Pasts) -- Ontological Violence and the Planetary Eurasian Past -- Preamble: Dyadism and the Bodily Maternal -- The Imaginary Bodily Maternal and mSymbolic in Middle Stone Age subSaharan Africa and Epipaleolithic Eurasia: Relationality in Early Human Foraging and Hunting Life -- Ochre, Blood, and the Maternal -- Mobiliary Maternal Sculptures in Eurasia -- Splitting the Maternal and the Origins of Slavery in Eurasia and North Africa -- The Symbolic Father in Mesopotamia, 'Sex,' and Slavery -- Nammu of Eridu: From Unsexed Primordial Creatrix to Sexed Deity-Mother -- Uruk, Slavery, and Concubinage -- The Rage of the Father and Categories of Mother -- Maternal Alienation and the Anthropocene -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 3 Part Two. The Maternal ≠ {Mother + Child}: Relational Ontology and the Mattering of Black Lives (Planetary Futures) -- Introduction -- Prelude -- Climate Change, Migration Events, and Foraging in the subcontinent -- The Introduction of Farming into SubSaharan Africa and an Expanding mSymbolic.
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Paleolinguistics and the mSymbolic -- Language, the Maternal, and Drumming -- Batuko, Cape Verde, and the mSymbolic -- The Mattering of Black Lives and the Maternal #Hashtag -- The Ontological Mattering of Black Lives -- Epilogue: Palestine -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 4 The BlackSpace Manifesto: 'Living' Black Liberatory Futures -- Prologue -- BlackSpace: Brunching with Intention -- Moving at the Speed of Trust -- Black Knowingness -- The Just City Lab and Harvard's 'Black in Design' Conference -- The BlackSpace Manifesto -- Spatial Futures -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 5 Remaindered Commons: Notes Toward Post-socialist Futures in China vis-à-vis the Black Outdoors -- The Commons -- The Black Outdoors as Analytic-Method -- The Remaindering of Collective Life -- The Remaindering of Affect and the Affective Commons -- Starting Again -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 6 The Necromancy of Derivative Violence: Finance Capitalism, Planetary Pandemics, and Speculative Wagers on Death in the Anthropocene -- Introduction -- Cynicism and the Derivative Futures of Finance Capitalism -- Death as Future Under Finance Capitalism -- Leading Workers to Slaughter -- Living Futures in the Post-Anthropocene -- Works Cited -- Part II How I Got Over: On Black Tomorrows -- 7 "Symbols AND Systems!" The Take 'Em Down, NOLA's Decolonial Approach to Memory Work" -- The "Monument Wars" in NOLA -- Competing Removal Narratives -- TEDNC's "Symbols AND Systems"-A Decolonial Approach in Their Own Words -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 8 Rewriting the World: Climate Fiction, Black Future-Space Making, and the Speculative Project of Justice -- Introduction -- Black Geographies, Queer Ecologies -- Climate Fiction -- An Unkindness of Ghosts and Smoketown -- Creating Community -- Envisioning Resistance -- Fostering Empathy and Accountability -- Conclusion -- Works Cited.
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9 Critical Engagement into GIS Methods While Wrestling with Slavery's Archive -- Critical Mobility Studies -- McKittrick Explains -- Works Cited -- Part III Sovereignty in the Capitalocene as the Crucible of Difference in the Post-Anthropocene -- 10 Algorithmic Finance and the Anthropogenic Environmental Crisis in Accelerando: Science of Finance Capital as Catalyst of Climate Change -- Introduction -- Algorithms at Work and the Techno-Financial Acceleration -- Hidden Financial Worlds-an Algorithmic Epistemicide? -- Deregulation, Re-regulation, and the New Differential Geographies of Algorithmic Trading -- Trading on Time-Trading on Speed -- Algorithmic Environmental Finance-Spatio-temporal Acceleration -- The Value of Spatio-temporal Market Information-Nature Decoupled? -- Algorithmic Responses to Anthropogenic Disasters-Future Scenarios -- Countering and Managing the Threat of Financial AI -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 11 The Tourismocene: Barcelona, Overtourism, and the Spatial Futures of the Polis -- Introduction -- The Tourismocene and the Touristocene -- The Notion of Overtourism -- Enter Barcelona -- The Postpolitical Tourist and the Political Citizen -- Barcelona Once Again -- Tourism's Spatial Futures -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 12 Environmental Futures and Urbanity Entangled in Nuclear Legacies in the Baltic Sea Coastal Towns of Paldiski and Sillamäe -- Introduction -- Two Vignettes About the Challenges of Nuclear Legacies -- Paldiski, Estonia -- Sillamäe, Estonia -- Spheres of Global Waste Matter and Environmental Disturbances -- Soviet Military-Nuclear Disturbances on Estonian Coastal Landscapes -- Paldiski: Traces of the Nuclear Submarine Station and Its (Dis)entanglements With the Current City -- Sillamäe: From Uranium to Modern Rare Metals Production as Frames of Urban Change.
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Re-territorialized Waste, Depoliticized Environment, and Urban Futures -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 13 Transmotion in the Folkhem: Automobility, Epistemicide, and the Post-Anthropocene -- Introduction -- Transmotion -- The Sámi in Sweden -- The Folkhem -- The Epistemic Projects of the Folkhem -- Automobility -- A Post-folkhem in the Post-anthropocene? -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Part IV Speculative Futures as a Lens for "Staying Human in the Cataclysm." -- 14 But That's Just Mad! Reading the Utopian Impulse in Dark Princess and Black Empire -- Messengers and Messiah: W.E.B. Du Bois's Dark Princess -- Brazen Machinery: George Schuyler's Black Empire -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 15 Troubling the Anthropos in the Post-anthropocene: Liu Cixin's Three-Body Trilogy -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- Notes -- Works cited -- 16 Smart and Cruel. Cities in the Thrall of Artificial Intelligence in the Fiction of William Gibson and Cory Doctorow -- Stories About Real and Imagined "Thinking Machines" -- Modern Design as Innovation and Epistemicide -- From Futurism's Dreams of Metalized Bodies to Today's Augmented Reality and Neuroprosthetics -- William J Mitchell's Techno-Urban Paradigm as "Accelerando" -- Hannah Arendt on Political Responsibility -- William Gibson's Neuromancer -- Cory Doctorow's Makers, Walkaway, and "Unlicensed Bread" -- Manifesto of Futurism (Marinetti, 1909) as a script of the Anthropocene -- Works Cited -- Index.
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