Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Introduction: Coordinates (0°0′ Longitude, 51° N Latitude) 1
4. GEOLOGIC LIFE ANALYTIC 27
5. GEOLOGIC LIFE LEXICON 31
6. I Geology’s Margins
7. 1 Insurgent Geology and Fugitive Life 39
8. 2 Rift Theory 77
9. 3 Underground Aesthetics 97
10. II Geologic Histories and Theories
11. 4 “Fathering” Geology: Geology Comes to America! 121
12. 5 Geologic Grammars 193
13. 6 Stratigraphic Thought and the Metaphysics of the Strata 236
14. 7 Geopower: Materialisms before Biopolitics 255
15. III Inhuman Episte- mologies
16. 8 Inhuman Matters I: Black Earth and Abyssal Futurity 295
17. 9 Inhuman Matters II: Deep Timing and Undergrounding in the Carceral Mine 343
18. 10 Inhuman Matters III: Stealing Suns 378
19. 11 Inhuman Matters IV: Modernity, Urbanism, and the Spatial Fix of Whiteness 401
20. 12 Inhuman Matters V: Trees of Life (and Death), “Strange Fruit,” and Geologies of Race 438
21. IV Paradigms of Geologic Life
22. 13 Ghost Geologies 477
23. Acknowledgments: For the Orphans (Not Prisoners) of Geography 497
24. Notes 501
25. References 559
26. Index 583