Relations between earth and life, and how these are politically molten, have witnessed a renewed attention with debates around the Anthropocene. This chapter argues that such transformations are not the outcome of the agency of “mankind” or humanity as a whole. Rather, they are the product of coercive cartographies and pathways of power. This argument, informing the wider scope of this book, is fleshed out through three interventions. By animating archives, the chapter shows how colonial violence and plantation logics, in their quest to produce cheap natures, created new arrangements of human and other-than-human life. By animating landscape, it unsettles humanist readings of environmental transformations. By shifting from a politics of representation to one of dwelling, the chapter foregrounds how people and elephants make worlds along and against the grain of coercive designs. Resituating anthropogenic fauna as postcolonial, it provides openings for specifying ecologies of the present: as a Plantationocene.