There’s Something in the Water

Tia-Simone Gardner
This image is an aerial view, likely from a satellite or drone, showing a section of the Mississippi River and an adjacent industrial area. In the top left corner, there's a dark blue

In her book A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None, Kathryn Yussof (2018) describes a thick relationship between extractive capitalism, geologic time, and (anti)Blackness. She writes, “As the Anthropocene proclaims the language of species life – Anthropos – through a universalist geologic commons, it neatly erases histories of racism that were incubated through the regulatory structure of geologic relations.