... The conclusion returns to the question of how South Africa foretells planetary futures. Residual governance drives the Anthropocene and nourishes fantasies of endless growth. It bolsters racial capitalism and presents a formidable challenge to struggles for environmental justice...

... are themselves mortal. While an aura of death denial pervades the public’s attitude toward digital recordings—thought immortal, never to curl and decay like celluloid film—the files that store death footage face their own deaths through, for example, neglect in the endless process of migration to new formats...

... that contributes to the capitalist profitability and expansion of the occupation writ large. It is less a stripping away of individual properties than an endless interfacing of dividual data and metrics This chapter is interested in how dividualization is both digital and of the flesh, involving series...

... The afterword addresses a key question that animates this project: how do we write the lifeworlds of trans people who are denied basic access to life at every turn? Abolishing cisness is an ongoing project that refuses the endless demands placed on trans people to be both the crisis and site...

...-defined meteorological knowledge that was not only popular but also textual and graphical, white and male. These new media produced a national weather consciousness rooted in aerial technology and the promise of endless quantification of aerial space through the dominance of pictorial data. white...

... Mine lands are omnipresent in South Africa's endless debates about land reform. Asbestos, platinum, chromium, iron: all of South Africa's mines have toxic afterlives. Their leakages, debris, and emanations continue to time-bomb the future. In Gauteng, planners, policy makers, and activists see...

... above their own grief to advance healing in their own villages and towns and justice well beyond their borders. Community mending had to replace endless exile, impunity for war crimes, a spirit of revenge, and deep-seated suspicion. Gender violence had to be criminalized and rape named an international...

... literature. Claims are made, on the basis of Wolfgang Iser’s and Maurice Blanchot’s theories of literature, that literature matters because it serves three essential human functions: social critique, the pleasure of the text, and allowing a materialization of the imaginary or an endless approach...

... or an endless approach to an unapproachable imaginary. Though human civilization would not come to an end if literature, in the old-fashioned sense of printed books, were to vanish in an age of what Miller calls “prestidigitalization,” much would be lost that video games, films, television, and popular songs...

... condition of possibility. Unlike affective labor, time itself refers to the laboring of affect, a laboring that contributes to the capitalist profitability and expansion of the occupation writ large. It is less a stripping away of individual properties than an endless interfacing of dividual data...