ICA Miami presents Geologic Realism: on the beach in epochal times

Monday, July 8th though Thursday, July 11th from 2-5pm enjoy a conversation with Kathryn Yusoff at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA Miami) for the museum’s Summer Intensive 2019. The Anthropocene, as a diverse set of environmental happenings under the long arc of settler colonialism, slavery and racial capitalism, is delivering a lesson in geologic realism about the natality of ecological and racialised violence. Such reckonings with geology—as an inventory of matter—arrive on the foreshore in various forms of inundation that threaten, remake and rift the taken for granted ground. In this broken ground, the inhuman dimensions of Modernity’s horizons are engaged to reveal a foundational racialisation of matter. This seminar will investigate the grammars of these inhuman geologies on the beach as a rift/riff zone; a zone where the political terra of land as property and bodies as commodities are opened up by libidinal and littoral economies. With a concern for fashioning alternative worlds and counter-modes of anti-racist fossilisation in the Anthropocene, the beach will be a site in which to collectively address both epochal times and time travel.

Mon, July 8, 2019 from 2-5pm / Day 1: Anthropocenic Times

Sylvia Wynter, 1492: A New World View in Race, Discourse, and the Origin of the Americas: A New World View ed. Vera Lawrence Hyatt and Rex Nettleford, 5-57. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995. Sylvia Wynter and Katherine McKittrick, “Unparalleled catastrophe for Our Species? Or, to Give Humanness a Different Future: Conversations” in Sylvia Wynter ed. Katherine McKittrick. Durham, Duke University Press, 2015. Kathryn Yusoff, A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2018.

Tue, July 9, 2019 from 2-5pm / Day 2: You Are Here (arrival)

Christina Sharpe “Lose your Kin” New Inquiry, 2016. Denise Ferreira da Silva “1 (life) ÷ 0 (blackness) = ∞ − ∞ or ∞ / ∞: On Matter Beyond the Equation of Value” e-flux, 2017. Kathryn Yusoff Epochal Aesthetics: Affectual Infrastructures of the Anthropocene e-flux, 2017.

Wed, July 10, 2019 from 2-5pm / Day 3: You Are (not) Here (erasure)

Laura Pulido and Juan de Lara (2018) “Reimagining the ‘Justice’ in Environment Justice: Radical Ecologies, Decolonial Thought, and the Black Radical Tradition” Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space (1-2): 76-98. Francoise Verges Racial Capitalocene Verso 2017. Kathryn Yusoff White Utopia/Black Inferno: Life on a Geologic Spike e-flux, 2019.

Thu, July 11, 2019 from 2-5pm / Day 4: Geologic Blues: at the beach in the breach of time

Edouard Glissant “The Black Beach” “The Burning Beach” Poetics of Relation Ann Arbor: Michigan University Press, 2010. Katherine McKittrick “Rift” Keywords in Radical Geography: Antipode 50, 2019. Tiffany Lethabo King. “Humans Involved: Lurking in the Lines of Posthumanist Flight.” Critical Ethnic Studies 3, no. 1 (2017): 162-85. Kathryn Yusoff 2019 Geologic Realism: On the Beach of Geologic Time Social Text 1 March; 37 (1 (138)): 1–26