Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vi
3. Creation Story 1
4. Part 1. Terracene
5. 1. Terror and the Anthropocene 13
6. 2. Anti-Colonial Critique of the Anthropocene 22
7. 3. Provincializing the Anthropocene; or, Why Artists, Feminists, and Yemeni People Have Much to Say about the Cosmos 27
8. 4. The Anthropocene Is a Work of Art 40
9. 5. The Terracene 46
10. 6. Sensing the Terracene 51
11. 7. Crude Aesthetics 70
12. Part 2. The Sounds of Terracene
13. 8. The Glass Shattered at My Feet 83
14. 9. Listening to the Terracene 85
15. 10. Shelter 104
16. 11. Silence 106
17. Part 3. Terran Deities: Oil, Fires, Fevers
18. 12. Lamassu 113
19. 13. Huma 126
20. 14. Homa 129
21. 15. Pazuzu 134
22. Part 4. Narrative Terrorism
23. 16. The Red Star 143
24. 17. Narrative Terrorism 146
25. Part 5. Crude Aesthetics
26. 18. Texas Crude 163
27. 19. A Fire! 171
28. 20. The Devil’s Excrement 185
29. Acknowledgments 189
30. Notes 193
31. Bibliography 211
32. Index 223