Fear of a Dead White Planet

“What can you break? What can you block? Jump on the Intergalactic Bummer Train (formerly known as planet Earth); they’re killing us, so throw words out the window and dance with rage. Fear of a Dead White Planet offers a sharp wit and sharper words: Land matters, and anything that doesn’t fix it is truly the problem.” - Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, coauthor of Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene: The New Nature

“Fear of a Dead White Planet is a compelling manifesto and blueprint for figuring out collective approaches to politics, life, and inquiry on matters of shared concern. Humanists, social scientists, and others working within and against the university will find it to be welcome reading. Think of this book as a kind of polymorphously pessimistic version of R. Buckminster Fuller’s Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, in which the urge toward ‘Charismatic Mega-Concepts’ is undone, to be replaced with calls for attention to how One World systems are often totalitarian - a fact that demands inquiry into their conditions of possibility and therefore the conditions under which some version of the we may dismantle them.” - Stefan Helmreich, author of A Book of Waves