ABSTRACT
This chapter uses the analytic of geologic realism to navigate between the representational ethics of a geologic kitchen-sink realism and the material propositions of speculative realisms. It discusses the role of geology in temporalizing subject positions to maintain racialized geosocial formations in the emerging context of a consideration of what might be called black Anthropocenes. Broadly, these are engagements with the Anthropocene that insist on a politics of recognition of the apocalypses of black and brown subjects within the ecocide of colonialism and empire. It is a politics of recognition that foregrounds the visibility of another inhuman history within the historicity of the ongoing coloniality of thought and relation in matter economies. The chapter explores the questions of weathering through an engagement with geologic realism to understand the context of the mythic and epochal claims of geology and of geologic force as a newly designated quality of subjectivity in the Anthropocene, a subjectivity that oft forgets its geographical passages.
