Terracene

Salar Mameni is Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

• Creation Story  1Part 1. Terracene  111. Terror and the Anthropocene  132. Anti-Colonial Critique of the Anthropocene  223. Provincializing the Anthropocene; or, Why Artists, Feminists, and Yemeni People Have Much to Say about the Cosmos  274. The Anthropocene Is a Work of Art  405. The Terracene  466. Sensing the Terracene  517. Crude Aesthetics  70Part 2. The Sounds of Terracene  818. The Class Shattered at My Feet  839. Listening to the Terracene  8510. Shelter  10411. Silence  106Part 3. Terran Deities: Oil, Fires, Fevers  11112. Lamassu  11313. Huma  12614. Homa15. Pazuzu  134Part 4. Narrative Terrorism  14116. The Red Star  14317. Narrative Terrorism  146Part 5. Crude Aesthetics  16118. Texas Crude  16319. A Fire!  17120. The Devil's Excrement  185Acknowledgments  189Notes  193Bibliography  211Index  223

“An innovative, timely, and eminently teachable book, Terracene is part of an exciting new wave of new materialist thought that challenges speciesism, decenters the human, and destabilizes the category of the human altogether. Salar Mameni writes beautifully, weaving memoir and personal vignettes with deep theorizing that demonstrates bright flashes of genius throughout. They bring together the best of critical race, Indigenous, and postcolonial scholarship to bear on the dystopian here and now of climate chaos and terrorized world-making. In short, Terracene is a sensation.” - Ronak K. Kapadia, author of (Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War) “In compelling visual analysis, Salar Mameni shows us how the colonial construction of terror has violently homed in on racialized bodies and environments. Through an aesthetics of revolt forged in opposition to the pincer movement of the inhumane-inhuman, Mameni confronts the weaponization of environments in their narrativization.” - Kathryn Yusoff, author of (A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None)