...Ursula K. Heise This essay examines the convergence of the science-fiction motif of terraforming with current discussions of the Anthropocene. In the process, it outlines a vision of the city, not as the antithesis to nature or a biological wasteland but as itself a form of nature. This vision of...

... prison and the prison, the world. Heise's concept of “terraforming for urbanists” argues that the inversion Foucault describes is now actually happening and, as Ngũgĩ's experience suggests, is well on its way to inverting the phantasmic and the real. Thus, it would seem, to put ourselves front and center...