Geologic Life

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