A review by frankie_s
A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None by Kathryn Yusoff

4.0

This was hard work, it took me almost two months to read. But worth it, even though of course I don’t think it needed to be so difficult. It’s saying something crucial. I would love it if that crucial thing was stated clearly. I think it’s about extractive capital and the white violence even of the recognition of that in the term anthropocene, the connections between geology and racism, how black bodies have been treated as things to mine and extract value from. Much more than that, probably, but I did struggle.

Notice I’m not calling this “academic language”. I’m an academic, and many academics can write more clearly than this.