{"product_id":"terracene-9781478020066","title":"Terracene","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eTerracene\u003c\/i\u003e Salar Mameni historicizes the popularization of the scientific notion of the Anthropocene alongside the emergence of the global war on terror. Mameni theorizes the Terracene as an epoch marked by a convergence of racialized militarism and environmental destruction. Both the Anthropocene and the war on terror centered the antagonist figures of the Anthropos and the terrorist as responsible for epochal changes in the new geological and geopolitical world orders. In response, Mameni shows how the Terracene requires radically new engagements with terra (the earth), whose intelligence resides in matters such as oil and phenomena like earthquakes and fires. Drawing on the work of artists whose practices interrogate histories of settler-colonial and imperial interests in land and resources in Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Kuwait, Syria, Palestine, and other regions most affected by the war on terror, Mameni offers speculative paths into the aesthetics of the Terracene.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An innovative, timely, and eminently teachable book, \u003ci\u003eTerracene\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eTerracene\u003c\/i\u003e is a sensation.” -- Ronak K. Kapadia, author of * Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War *\u003cbr\u003e“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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCreation Story  1\u003cbr\u003e Part 1. Terracene  11\u003cbr\u003e 1. Terror and the Anthropocene  13\u003cbr\u003e 2. Anti-Colonial Critique of the Anthropocene  22\u003cbr\u003e 3. Provincializing the Anthropocene; \u003ci\u003eor\u003c\/i\u003e, Why Artists, Feminists, and Yemeni People Have Much to Say about the Cosmos  27\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Anthropocene Is a Work of Art  40\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Terracene  46\u003cbr\u003e 6. Sensing the Terracene  51\u003cbr\u003e 7. Crude Aesthetics  70\u003cbr\u003e Part 2. The Sounds of Terracene  81\u003cbr\u003e 8. The Class Shattered at My Feet  83\u003cbr\u003e 9. Listening to the Terracene  85\u003cbr\u003e 10. Shelter  104\u003cbr\u003e 11. Silence  106\u003cbr\u003e Part 3. Terran Deities: Oil, Fires, Fevers  111\u003cbr\u003e 12. Lamassu  113\u003cbr\u003e 13. Huma  126\u003cbr\u003e 14. Homa\u003cbr\u003e 15. Pazuzu  134\u003cbr\u003e Part 4. Narrative Terrorism  141\u003cbr\u003e 16. The Red Star  143\u003cbr\u003e 17. Narrative Terrorism  146\u003cbr\u003e Part 5. Crude Aesthetics  161\u003cbr\u003e 18. Texas Crude  163\u003cbr\u003e 19. A Fire!  171\u003cbr\u003e 20. The Devil's Excrement  185\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  189\u003cbr\u003e Notes  193\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  211\u003cbr\u003e Index  223\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409012826455,"sku":"9781478020066","price":72.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/terracene-9781478020066","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}