![]() That no one puts their children in a boat Photo: Tyler Hicks/The New York Times/Redux, September 26, 2015. The great burnings of the trees, the vanishing of the bees, and everywhere the stealthy rising of the seas.Ī men’s clothing shop in Izmir, Turkey, selling life jackets. Farmers watch mile-high dust storms rub out the sky. Firestorms so vast they are visible from space rage across Amazonia, Australia, Siberia. Lightning torches the tundra, turning permafrost into permafire. Now the ice sheets are vanishing faster than ever thought possible. ![]() We combusted the deep time of the past-aeons of compressed ocean shells, ancient plants, and animal bones-into an alchemy of black energy and our fantasy of a forever fossil future. We awakened oil from its ancient slumber to fuel our own fossil dreams. How can we account for the planetary upheavals of the Anthropocene unless we illuminate the long arc of their beginnings in the military geographies of European imperialism-the foundational violences of slavery, genocides of Indigenous peoples, and the centuries of ecocides and onslaughts on the environment that shaped-and are now undoing-the world? At the same time, how can we animate alternative histories of the past and thereby imagine alternative futures? The established circuits that connect these crises have been ghosted. This essay enfolds, fugue-like, three great crises of our time: climate chaos, global militarization, and the mass displacement of people and other species. How do we write a history of fragments? How do we record a history of forgetting? ![]() We have entered an epoch of shocked space and torn time. Where one finds oneself unexpectedly in haunted spaces that create improbable connections. From monstrum, monere: to show, warn, or remindįrom fugere, or fugare, to flee from or chase,Īs in fleeing or chasing monsters or ghosts.įugues appear in contrapuntal music or narratives, interweaving differently braided voices.įugues also appear as emotional states involving amnesia, great forgettings and unburyings, ![]()
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