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Fear of a dead white planet

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Fear of a Dead White Planet is a collaboratively written project meant to assess the current terms of planetary and environmental thinking in the university. Grounded in concepts of land and place and understandings of deep structural violences via industrialization, and considering the role of study in the university, this book analyzes the current pull to planetary thinking as well as related subjects such as the Anthropocene and geoengineering. Through its experimental chapters, the authors provoke readers to pay special attention to perturbations that draw out influences, structural relations, uncertainties, unseen forces, and assumptions. Centered on what the authors call "terraformatics," or the analysis of interconnected processes that inform being and knowing, Fear of a Dead White Planet reconsiders the contemporary problem of the environment as an effect of white supremacy and offers proposals for rethinking how to study collective conditions"-- Provided by publisher.

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Against the One World, for Conditions -- What Is a Planet? -- What Is an Intergalactic Bummer Train? -- What Is Environment? -- The Anthropocene's One World -- Leaving environment behind -- The geoengineering rush -- Who, Where, What? -- Who are we, and who do we think you are? -- Where are we going? -- What is an X? -- What Is a Core / What Are Worlds? -- What Is a Species / What Is a Loss? -- Who's Afraid of a Dead White Planet? -- Situated Premise-Fear of a Dead White Planet -- The disaster is already here -- FDWP = F + D +W + P -- FDWP's illiberal and liberal modes -- Letting things die -- Some Propositions -- There is no starting point, but we need to start somewhere -- The Charismatic Mega Concept (CMC)is a trap, but we still need concepts -- Study will never be enough; orient to resolution -- Don't trust your facts, but don't trust your objects either -- Terraforming is not in the future; it is now -- Middles -- What is a middle? -- What is land? -- What is a lung? -- What is a virus? -- What is thinking? -- Terraformatics -- The Resolve -- Impossible Methods for Terraformatics Research Studies -- Shifting microconditions -- No one is alone -- Terraforming for some can be terrabreaking for others -- Take one step into something else -- Welcome the contradictions -- Unknowing objects -- The future is in the past; time is part of the work -- Accept impurity and commit to harm reduction -- Conspiracy is not always wrong; consider making a conspiracy -- Welcome No -- Do what you are doing, maybe -- Mistakes will be made -- Pay attention to desire -- Free causality from its metaphysical foundation and your study will follow! -- Attend to matterings, not One World materiality -- Still not sure how to start? Start with middles -- Conclusion and Future Assessment -- Welcome to the End -- Gleaning Group III.5, Work Log 21220401, Tamalpais Archipelago, RSVTerra9

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