...Kathryn Yusoff Geology is a praxis of materiality and thought in the genealogy of Western metaphysics and racial capitalism and a site of possession in the Anthropocene. In the context of renewed interest in the inhuman, this article uses the analytic of geologic realism to navigate between...

... in Jameson’s Marx commentary can also provide a different angle on the mainstream debate about a human-altered geology and climate. That debate is one that orbits around a notion of species agency and a representation of history that, in most versions, lend themselves rather easily to ideology critique...

... ways of knowing and being become visible and act upon the physical world. The differential knowledges accrued around the materiality of infrastructure are sedimentary; in their silt-laden layers they not only contribute to but also impede capitalist accumulation. An intertwined geology-genealogy...

... Mythology,” in Margins of Philosophy, trans. Alan Bass (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982), 213. 23. F. C. von Savigny, quoted in D. R. Oldroyd, “Historicism and the Rise of Historical Geology, Part I,” History of Science, no. 17 (1979), 193. 24. Jean Baudrillard, The Mirror...

... actually have a long history and complex genealogy that incorporates meanings from law, medicine, geology, engineering, chemistry, music, calculus, and grammar. In all these senses, derivatives are a transmission of some value from a source to something else, an attribute of that original...

... in terms of geology and demography. Most pertinent in this case is the perceived and performed Africanity of Santiago. The dramatic keyword here is badiu, Kriolu for the Portuguese term vadio (vagabond). To be or speak badiu is a reference to Santiago...

... Yusoff has argued that the (white) science of geology and the mining industry are key implements in humanizing/dehumanizing racializing assemblages. 98 Yusoff surmises that Indigenous and Black subjects are structurally produced as “Man's Others” through a “geologic lexicon of the inhuman (as matter...