ABSTRACT
This chapter concerns itself with the intersection of two concepts—the Anthropocene and an 'avant-garde without authority'—to develop what Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari called a 'new earth'. The trajectory of the chapter struggles with the pervasive question of capitalist economic expansion as it continues to destroy the earth and eventually 'bury' us as a species. An avant-garde follows the roadmap of an affirmative nomadology as a positive Utopian force that has three aspects as developed by Eugene Holland. They are: its capacity to intervene in and transform our habitual modes of thinking, desiring, and acting; its capacity to detect and draw attention to viable and actually existing alternatives to State and capitalist norms; and its capacity to give expression to alternative becomings and social movements in order to strengthen them, broaden them, and even extend them to odier social fields and to connect them with other movements to promote widespread social change.
