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Chapter 1, “Ice as Analytic,” illustrates ice’s generative offerings and contours as neither land nor ocean but as an inherently transitory element. It explores how ice complicates juridical claiming of space, acts as a node of thinking and literary device, and how it both is and is not a metaphor. This chapter places ice as an innovative theoretical analytic to bring together analyses of matter, material landscapes, and racial formations. Offering ice as analytic also complicates and troubles the imperial categories of the globe that work to keep radical traditions separate by latitude and longitude, hot and cold, and categories of race and indigeneity. The chapter centers literature, poetry, and theory—especially of the Indigenous Canadian and Alaskan Arctic, the Black Atlantic, the Caribbean, and Oceania—to think critically about what ice asks that we think together and also what ice provides, contains, and exceeds.