In Terracene 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.
- Cover
- Contents
- Creation Story
- Part 1. Terracene
- 1. Terror and the Anthropocene
- 2. Anti-Colonial Critique of the Anthropocene
- 3. Provincializing the Anthropocene; or, Why Artists, Feminists, and Yemeni People Have Much to Say about the Cosmos
- 4. The Anthropocene Is a Work of Art
- 5. The Terracene
- 6. Sensing the Terracene
- 7. Crude Aesthetics
- Part 2. The Sounds of Terracene
- 8. The Glass Shattered at My Feet
- 9. Listening to the Terracene
- 10. Shelter
- 11. Silence
- Part 3. Terran Deities: Oil, Fires, Fevers
- 12. Lamassu
- 13. Huma
- 14. Homa
- 15. Pazuzu
- Part 4. Narrative Terrorism
- 16. The Red Star
- 17. Narrative Terrorism
- Part 5. Crude Aesthetics
- 18. Texas Crude
- 19. A Fire!
- 20. The Devil’s Excrement
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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