Description
Spatial Futures invites readers to imagine power and freedom through the lens of the ‘Black Outdoors’, a transdisciplinary spatial concept that operates beyond the planetary, stratigraphic confines of the ‘Anthropocene’. The chapters collectively point to the ontological-epistemological contradictions involved in forging liberatory spatial futures. Bringing new spatial imaginaries to bear in and outside geography, the book refuses the strictures of the ‘cenic’, entertaining difference as world-making.
Table of Contents
Introduction.- I. Relational ontology, death, and the maternal.- Part One. The maternal ≠ {Mother + Child}: Relational ontology and the mattering of Black lives (Planetary pasts).- Part two: The maternal ≠ {Mother + Child}: Relational ontology and the mattering of Black lives (Planetary futures).- The BlackSpace Manifesto: ‘Living’ Black liberatory futures.- Remaindered Commons: Notes towards post-socialist futures in China vis-à-vis the Black Outdoors.- The necromancy of derivative violence: Finance capitalism, planetary pandemics, and speculative wagers on death in the Anthropocene.- II. How I Got Over: On Black Tomorrows.- “Symbols AND systems!” The Take ‘Em Down, NOLA’s decolonial approach to memory work”.- Rewriting the world: Climate fiction, Black future-space making, and the speculative project of justice.- Critical engagement into GIS methods while wrestling with slavery’s archive.- III. Sovereignty in the Capitalocene as the crucible of difference in the post-Anthropocene.- Algorithmic finance and the anthropogenic environmental crisis in “accelerando”: Science of finance capital as catalyst of climate change.- The Tourismocene: Barcelona, overtourism, and the spatial futures of the polis.- Environmental futures and urbanity entangled in nuclear legacies in the Baltic Sea coastal towns of Paldiski and Sillamäe.- Transmotion in the folkhem: Automobility, epistemicide, and the post-Anthropocene.- IV Speculative futures as a lens for “staying human in the cataclysm.”.- But that’s just mad! Reading the utopian impulse in Dark princess and Black empire.- Troubling the anthropos in the post-Anthropocene: Liu Cixin’s Three-Body trilogy.- Smart and cruel. Cities in the thrall of artificial intelligence in the fiction of William Gibson and Cory Doctorow.
