Geologic life : inhuman intimacies and the geophysics of race / Kathryn Yusoff.
| Author/creator | Yusoff, Kathryn author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Durham : Duke University Press, 2024. |
| Description | x, 597 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 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. |
| Abstract | "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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Yusoff, Kathryn. Geologic life. Durham : Duke University Press, 2024 9781478059288 |
| LCCN | 2023033362 |
| ISBN | 9781478030300 |
| ISBN | 1478030305 |
| ISBN | 9781478026075 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 1478026073 |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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| Joyner | Item has been checked out | DT15 .Y88 2024 | Due 01/04/2027 | Want This? |