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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7a4b29a7172d059fa84169d0f95588001fc4b782908b96842db942d95b8ea324/DSCF2541.jpg" data-mid="213917170" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7a4b29a7172d059fa84169d0f95588001fc4b782908b96842db942d95b8ea324/DSCF2541.jpg" /> Listen to the Audio Guide for Fractal catastrophes generate new solidarities Read the Broadside for more information about the exhibited works Install photos by Luís Corzo and Susan Behrends Valenzuela Opening photos by Hatnim Lee Opening performance by Les Cenelles Featuring several new experiments, research in progress, and collaborations with Tobechukwu Onwukeme, Mark Mushiva, Mohamad Safa and Les Cenelles.&nbsp;Sign Painting by Dascool. Graphic design by Estudio Herrera. Special thanks from the artist to Sasha Birman, Frank Dexter Brown, Scott Eustis, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Adrian Lahoud, Godofredo Perreira, Mario Rebolledo Vieyra, Nuno Simoes, Tom Turnbull, Eyal Weizman, Jeanne M. Woods, The Rivers Institute, Amistad Research Center, and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Trace the shadow from this world to the other, 2024. Gulf by Imani Jacqueline Brown examines geographies of oil and gas, spanning from their cosmological origins to our emancipatory futures. For a decade, Imani has traced the fractal catastrophes that unfurl along the continuum of extractivism in her homeland of Louisiana, from colonialism and slavery to fossil fuel production. Now, through audiovisual layering, sonic reimagining, and archival recontextualizing, this exhibition envisions a blackout of fossil power across the territories affected by the legacies of Gulf Oil Corporation. This exhibition illustrates the ways in which the planet’s surface, depths, and biosphere have been depleted for the extraction of financial value. Imani maps out the intertwined ways in which the production of oil and gas from the Gulf of Mexico is part of an expansive politico-economic, socio-technological, and cosmological system. This work intricately ties the celestial with the geological, emphasizing the manifold ways in which fossil capitalism perpetuates epistemic, ecological, and economic violence, but also creates the impetus for the formation of fractal solidarity networks among peoples, places, and species branching from Louisiana to Angola to Palestine. The exhibition’s title, Gulf&nbsp; (read “Strike Gulf”) is inspired by the power of boycotts and other formations of solidarity to defend and tether lifeworlds. In this critical moment, the exhibition maps the persistent threat of extractivism, which spawns planetary crises from colonialism and slavery to the present climate crisis, and communicates the urgency of advocating for corporate accountability and ecological reparations. This exhibition invites us to engage directly with the conflicts and solidarities that shape our interconnected worlds and yet orient us towards collective liberation. https://imanijacquelinebrown.net/fractal-catastrophes Sat, 25 May 2024 14:57:15 +0000 Imani Jacqueline Brown https://imanijacquelinebrown.net/fractal-catastrophes ←Home <img width="829" height="838" width_o="829" height_o="838" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b4f4944ecc977eaad89697073493479da7cc01098f1d970b1e68cacc12151fec/Gulf-web.png" data-mid="213324511" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/829/i/b4f4944ecc977eaad89697073493479da7cc01098f1d970b1e68cacc12151fec/Gulf-web.png" /> Fractal catastrophes generate new solidarities Audio guide <img width="5184" height="4392" width_o="5184" height_o="4392" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/78f2c9a6b1ddc542501b302b987af99bdd592fecff6811f80b04549e48e4272f/2024.06.18_Spiral0.5x.png" data-mid="213754243" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/78f2c9a6b1ddc542501b302b987af99bdd592fecff6811f80b04549e48e4272f/2024.06.18_Spiral0.5x.png" /> 1.&nbsp; 2.&nbsp; 3. 4. 5. 6. https://imanijacquelinebrown.net/Forest-islands-of-our-ecological-diaspora Wed, 17 Jan 2024 17:02:28 +0000 Imani Jacqueline Brown https://imanijacquelinebrown.net/Forest-islands-of-our-ecological-diaspora ←Home <img width="3796" height="3024" width_o="3796" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9e1e05d8a42fdc987074c648043523b95fcc4786fa9ca2f252057be4c3a79b90/IJB_6.jpg" data-mid="202039491" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9e1e05d8a42fdc987074c648043523b95fcc4786fa9ca2f252057be4c3a79b90/IJB_6.jpg" /> Forest islands of our ecological diaspora Across Louisiana's “Plantation Country,” aka “Cancer Alley,” Black antebellum cemeteries manifest as groves of trees interrupting a horizon of sugarcane plantations and petrochemical plants. Between 1820-1865, enslaved people were forced to clear Louisiana's primordial forests to make way for the expansion of cane. They preserved small sections of forest where their loved ones were interred. These groves are both remnants of the erased bottomland hardwood forest and carefully stewarded microecologies – time capsules of lifeworlds that thrived against all odds in the back-a-plantations. There, enslaved people tended gardens and planted trees; organized dances and rituals; exchanged information and ideas; experimented with temporalities of freedom and plotted revolts. Today, their groves, which have survived generations of racial violence, industrial encroachment, and climate disaster, stand as the frontlines of more-than-human, intergenerational resistance to the continuum of extractivism. Amazingly, Louisina's burial groves have echoes in the forest islands found across West and Central Africa. These islands are portals through which we can traverse space and time, constellating ecological relations on both sides of the Atlantic, stitching our more-than-human bodies into an ecological diaspora. With these portals as entry points, this project intends to recover and remember the Afro-diasporic ecological praxes that ground, orient, and inspire non-extractive ways-of-being, uplifting ecological integrity as the heart of Black cultural inheritance. Its outcomes include collaborative experiential research in Louisiana, Angola, and Nigeria; interchange between Louisianan and African stakeholders; films and installations; and a written doctoral dissertation in Geography. <img width="4896" height="3264" width_o="4896" height_o="3264" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b38f0ef7b6ae95bbca8cea341e4e1cdb0ca30c14a920e84f4b1cc9fa279f612f/IJB_7.JPG" data-mid="202039334" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b38f0ef7b6ae95bbca8cea341e4e1cdb0ca30c14a920e84f4b1cc9fa279f612f/IJB_7.JPG" /> https://imanijacquelinebrown.net/The-holes-in-the-earth-mirror-the-holes-in-our-souls-and-from-them-we Wed, 27 Sep 2023 13:08:45 +0000 Imani Jacqueline Brown https://imanijacquelinebrown.net/The-holes-in-the-earth-mirror-the-holes-in-our-souls-and-from-them-we ←Home The holes in the earth mirror the holes in our souls (and from them we can grow trees) 2023 A video installation with an eight-track soundscape by Les CenellesOn view as part of Unsettling Matter, Gaining Ground Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, USAAugust 19, 2023 – January 7, 2024 Created with the support of Visualizing Abolition at UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Flights courtesy of Healthy Gulf and South Wings. <img width="2520" height="1080" width_o="2520" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/baf1291a22fc5f10438310de593edc4f53b11007a1b31ad1e69770b7db3dab19/Still2.jpg" data-mid="192004653" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/baf1291a22fc5f10438310de593edc4f53b11007a1b31ad1e69770b7db3dab19/Still2.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aed277c3492293a1b81e3a19821163e3e634901e84045e69db9bd286f77882fa/20230822_UMGG-42.jpg" data-mid="192004744" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aed277c3492293a1b81e3a19821163e3e634901e84045e69db9bd286f77882fa/20230822_UMGG-42.jpg" /> <img width="2520" height="1080" width_o="2520" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/70ae8912c7fd6ab4b5a689b9c1fd0467c6e14caed834cba0816c30ee6971d9ab/Still3.jpg" data-mid="192004654" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/70ae8912c7fd6ab4b5a689b9c1fd0467c6e14caed834cba0816c30ee6971d9ab/Still3.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/248d3f939bbfe19cef1871907d220663202d04c90bc90e555f4ba03ad1fa4bd9/20230822_UMGG-38.jpg" data-mid="192005712" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/248d3f939bbfe19cef1871907d220663202d04c90bc90e555f4ba03ad1fa4bd9/20230822_UMGG-38.jpg" /> <img width="2520" height="1080" width_o="2520" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5e9263a29459c7950abd7e33fc3cb57f8f0e566983e26f93e5ebe6d68300649a/Still1.jpg" data-mid="192004652" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5e9263a29459c7950abd7e33fc3cb57f8f0e566983e26f93e5ebe6d68300649a/Still1.jpg" /> https://imanijacquelinebrown.net/What-remains-at-the-ends-of-the-earth Wed, 01 Jun 2022 07:56:44 +0000 Imani Jacqueline Brown https://imanijacquelinebrown.net/What-remains-at-the-ends-of-the-earth ←Home What remains at the ends of the earth?2022 Imani Jacqueline Brown What remains at the ends of the earth? 2022Soundscape by Andrea Catherine Steves and the artist.Video, printInstallation views, 12th Berlin Biennale, Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg, 11.6.–18.9.2022, photo credit: dotgain.infoCommissioned by the&nbsp;12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary ArtSupported by VIA Art Fund &amp; the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts <img width="4096" height="2732" width_o="4096" height_o="2732" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2dba00795185ae01a9cffa8a58b47cf311f8afbf261433715f352a750e9ff1ae/BB12_Imani-Jacqueline-Brown_installation-view_01.jpg" data-mid="149811420" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2dba00795185ae01a9cffa8a58b47cf311f8afbf261433715f352a750e9ff1ae/BB12_Imani-Jacqueline-Brown_installation-view_01.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1eceaf4b00ea1d84a9e188b98d3e4ab5ef232b7613aabb74fef2ead7ee9fd7a8/IJB_4.jpg" data-mid="176213336" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1eceaf4b00ea1d84a9e188b98d3e4ab5ef232b7613aabb74fef2ead7ee9fd7a8/IJB_4.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/11a0a92378666f51425c2c5a14c8703f26df5e52cc8655ac8853a4b0f0ad7cf9/IJB_2.jpg" data-mid="176213353" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/11a0a92378666f51425c2c5a14c8703f26df5e52cc8655ac8853a4b0f0ad7cf9/IJB_2.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2cfc6ebdbb90c3f9934b8cf5f271e61249c6dae45f16b5da904452aeec60094e/IJB_1.jpg" data-mid="176213335" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2cfc6ebdbb90c3f9934b8cf5f271e61249c6dae45f16b5da904452aeec60094e/IJB_1.jpg" /> <img width="2732" height="4096" width_o="2732" height_o="4096" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f6d1d038a4d8e4e0388db58a8fd5dbdb3d31f987af578c16d6ad08930e97d87e/BB12_Imani-Jacqueline-Brown_installation-view_03.jpg" data-mid="149811422" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f6d1d038a4d8e4e0388db58a8fd5dbdb3d31f987af578c16d6ad08930e97d87e/BB12_Imani-Jacqueline-Brown_installation-view_03.jpg" /> Created on the occasion of the 12 Berlin Biennale with the support of VIA Art Fund and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Research in the Visual Arts. Flights courtesy of Healthy Gulf and South Wings.In this video animation, videography, photography, and sound were captured by the artist via canoe, foot, car, and three-passenger propeller plane in Louisiana's coastal wetlands. GIS lines and points representing pipelines, canals, and wells were sourced from the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources and animated by the artist. Satellite images were sourced from Google Earth. Maps were sourced from the US Public Land Survey System ​(PLSS) and date between 1830 and 1860. The PLSS was the first US system to plat (or divide) indigenous territory into private property. This work is the outgrowth of a larger artist-activist research project into fossil fuel infrastructure in Louisiana’s coastal zone. Imani’s project Follow the Oil maps the fossil fuel production cycle from points of extraction to points of emissions, following the flow of oil through a single pipeline, and reveals the foundation of colonialism and slavery upon which the fossil fuel industry stands. –––In the coastal wetlands of the US state of Louisiana, the fossil fuel industry reigns as heir to the extractive logics and landscapes of settler colonialism and slavery. Oil and gas corporations have dredged 10,000 miles of canals to drill and access 90,000 wells, which connect through 50,000 miles of pipeline to over 200 plants in the ‘Petrochemical Corridor’. This invasive infrastructure severs the integrity of Louisiana’s more-than-human ecologies. Canals kill the vegetation that holds sediment together as land; since the 1930s, 2,000 square miles of wetlands have disintegrated into the sea. This place is known by many names: Named for the corset of slave plantations that strangle the Mississippi River, it is known as “Plantation Country”. Infamous for producing the most toxic air in the US, it is known as “Cancer Alley”. Residents knew the region first as ‘home’. And once it was part of a region known by two dozen indigenous nations as ‘Bulbancha’, meaning land of many languages. For how much longer will this land be known? And still, while this land holds the accumulations of 300 years of extractive violence, it also supports its repair. Historically enslaved people planted magnolia and willow trees to mark the graves of their loved ones, retaining a pan-African tradition. Today, their carefully cultivated microecologies conspire with Black activists to resist the continuum of extractivism to the ends of the earth and beyond. Playlist produced for the exhibition Dear Earth: Art and Hope in a Time of Crisis at Hayward Gallery, London, UK. https://imanijacquelinebrown.net/Menu Tue, 27 Oct 2020 07:09:42 +0000 Imani Jacqueline Brown https://imanijacquelinebrown.net/Menu Imani Jacqueline Brown Black Ecologies,2018 –1. Resurrection | Insurrection 2.&nbsp;Gulf 3.&nbsp;Forest islands of our ecological diaspora4.&nbsp;The holes in the earth mirror the holes in our souls (and from them we can grow trees)5.&nbsp;What remains at the ends of the earth?6.&nbsp;Follow the Oil 7. Unraveling Industry &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;8. To the pigeons on mybalcony: A love letter9. The Remote Sensation of Disintegration10. Will the river remember the land we lost?11. Fossil Free FestForensic Architecture, 2020 –&nbsp;1.&nbsp;Restituting Evidence: Genocide and Reparations in German Colonial Namibia2. If toxic air is a monument to slavery, how do we take it down? Blights Out,2014 – 20181. Blights Out 2. Under Water (1731-2001) 3. The Living Glossary4. Blights Out for Mayor 5. Blights Out for President Occupy Museums,2011 – 20181. Occupy Museums2. Debt of 500 Artists Largely Owned by Five Nongovernmental Economic Superpowers (After Hans Haacke)3. Debtfair &amp;c.1. Truth as Theatrical Fiction2. From here I can see this era fade at the edges of my vision 3. Solitary Gardens4. The House that Herman BuiltWriting,2014 – 1. And still, the brightness shines through the holes in the earth 2. Ecological Witnessing3.&nbsp;MARCH Issue 02: Black Ecologies4. Black Ecologies: an opening, an offering5. To the pigeons on my balcony: a love letter6. Should we consider fossil fuel extraction an unjust enterprise?7. The Black Market: Kevin Brisco, Jr.8. Zombifying Neighborhoods9. Performing Bare Life Bio, 1988– Imani Jacqueline Brown is an artist, activist, writer, and architectural researcher from New Orleans, based in London. Her work investigates the “continuum of extractivism,” which spans from settler-colonial genocide and slavery to fossil fuel production and climate change.
 In exposing the layers of violence and resistance that form the foundations of settler-colonial society, she opens space to imagine paths to ecological reparations.Imani's practice combines photography and videography, archival research, ecological philosophy, legal theory, people’s history, remote sensing, and counter-cartographic strategies to disentangle the spatial logics that make geographies, unmake communities, and break Earth’s geology. Her research is disseminated internationally through art installations, public actions, reports, and testimony delivered to courts and organs of the United Nations.Imani received her MA with distinction from the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London, in 2019 and her BA in Anthropology and Visual Arts from Columbia University in 2010. Among other things, she is currently a doctoral candidate in the School of Geography at Queen Mary, University of London and a research fellow with Forensic Architecture. Long&nbsp;Bio Press CV Publications Contact https://imanijacquelinebrown.net/Black-Ecologies Fri, 09 Oct 2020 21:51:13 +0000 Imani Jacqueline Brown https://imanijacquelinebrown.net/Black-Ecologies ←Home A call to action, scholarship,&nbsp;&amp; reparations. 2020-2021 How do we rupture the continuum of Extractivism, which spans from colonial genocide and slavery to climate change? We get radical.1We get to the root. Africa is humanity’s root. Through her Black diaspora, she seeds resistance to extractive ecologies of plantations and penitentiaries. We break down boundaries of geopolitical borders and NIMBY delusions that segregate humanity and hypoxify existence. We open portals to ecological reparations. 1.&nbsp;Radical / rad-i-kuhl / adj. Of or going to the root or origin. Read the manifesto— Black Ecologies: an opening, an offering Order MARCH, a journal of art and strategy issue 2: Black Ecologies https://imanijacquelinebrown.net/Black-Ecologies-an-opening-an-offering Fri, 09 Oct 2020 21:47:42 +0000 Imani Jacqueline Brown https://imanijacquelinebrown.net/Black-Ecologies-an-opening-an-offering ←Home Black EcologiesAn opening, an offering Originally published in issue 01 of&nbsp;MARCH: a journal of art &amp; strategy. In what I am calling the weather, antiblackness is pervasive as climate. The weather necessitates changeability and improvisation; it is the atmospheric condition of time and place; it produces new ecologies.–Christina Sharpe I along with others think the Anthropocene is more a boundary event than an epoch.–Donna Haraway Some saw in the Black [human] the salt of the earth, the vein of life through which the dream of a humanity reconciled with nature, and even with the totality of existence, would find its new face, voice, and movement.–Achille Mbembe 1. The war against Blackness, begun 500 years ago, is the event horizon of planetary extinction. And still, and yet, and therefore: Beyond the boundaries of a billion Black anthropocenes1 exist infinite Black ecologies. 2. Through our bodies, we can learn a thing or two (or infinitely more) about integration: Ecologies are assemblages of integral relationships between bodies. Bodies are bits of matter and energy that unite to become humans and microbes, ponds and planets, communities and worlds. Our bodies are ecologies; ecologies are bodies of bodies of bodies… Bodies nest ad infinitum, interdependent, indivisible. Each body is a point; each point is a threshold; each threshold opens onto an ecology. Each Black body points to a line of code drawn in sand and skin; each line is a boundary that obstructs movement across ecological thresholds; each boundary hypoxifies both the Black body and the world’s ecology. To return oxygen to humanity, each bounded Black body must be named; each name must be known. There are too many names to know. But Black bodies are not doors of no return. Naming and acknowledgments are necessary, but they are just the openings that enable us to make offerings. Rupturing the boundaries around and within Blackness, which holds all bodies and all names, opens wormholes. Through them, we can sow the seeds of other ecologies-of-being(s). 3. To open a wormhole, we must:a. Locate a boundary drawn through our ecological body: But where to begin? 1492?2 1619?3 1452?4 1682?5... There are too many boundary dates to note, but for our pruposesI propose descending through this one: 1758. Swedish botanist Carl Linneaus publishes the tenth edition of Systema Naturae. This “seminal” scientific text transplants a system of classifying Earth’s plant species onto the human species. In the name of “science,” Linnaeus dissects Homo sapiens with a system of social categorization6 raised from the demonic grounds7&nbsp;of slave plantations and, through the inscription of ironclad nomenclature into abstracted flesh, he animates a racialized chimera of stratified bodies: Homo... Americanus: reddish, choleric, and erect; hair—black, straight, thick; wide nostrils, scanty beard; obstinate, merry, free; paints himself with fine red lines; regulated by customs. Asiaticus: sallow, melancholy, stiff; black hair, dark eyes; severe, haughty, avaricious; covered with loose garments; ruled by opinions. Africanus: black, phlegmatic, relaxed; hair—black, frizzled; skin—silky; nose—flat; lips—tumid; women without shame, they lactate profusely; crafty, indolent, negligent; anoints himself with grease; governed by caprice. Europeanus: white, sanguine, muscular; hair—long, flowing; eyes—blue; gentle, acute, inventive; covers himself with close vestments; governed by laws.8 European men anoint themselves with Sylvia Wynter’s capital “M”9 and conjure a cosmology10 they call Enlightenment. Enlightenment exploits the subjective murkiness inherent to ecological existence to sanction capitalism’s foundational enterprises of genocide and slavery after the fact.11 Man orders himself as the height of existence—as WhiteHuman—and us as its bottom—as Blackinhuman. Fearing the force of White and the pitfall of Black, Others become equatorial, folded into the unsettled gradient of the Brown in-between,12 striving toward the northern pole. The ecology of Humanity enters a state of dysbiosis.13b. Open a wormhole to other ecologies: Conflating phenotypical darkness with phenomenological darkness, darkness with the unknown, and the unknown with fear, Enlightened Whiteness casts a surgical light. With each shadow banished, new shadows are revealed; within each particle, smaller particles are found. Yet, the new forms of knowledge gained are half-starved.14 With each body annihilated or enslaved, assimilated or segregated, the less the Enlightened know about themselves. Each person, place and particle split sounds the bell for the planet’s splintering. And yet, and still, and therefore, through the alchemical fusion of the phenotypical and the phenomenological, darkness of flesh is imbued with the dark power to reintegrate the world. 4. Through our bodies, we can learn a thing or two (or infinitely more) about segregation. Enlightened Bodies are as segregated internally as they are externally. The Human is segregated from the bacterium, even though ninety-nine percent of the DNA in the Human body is nonhuman.15 The Enlightened Human is segregated from the plants that provide him with the oxygen they need to exist; the plants create this oxygen in turn from the carbon dioxide that the Human expels. The Human is segregated from the land which, as Frantz Fanon reminds us, is the most important value, because it provides us with bread and dignity.16 Beneath the Black human body is the body of Earth, whose flesh is Black with oil and soil—Black with life. Yet, classified as Black, Earth becomes extinction’s ground zero; as Black human bodies dis-integrate under the magnification of Enlightenment, the Black body of Earth disintegrates. A sickly rainbow of bodies and souls floats above Enlightened ecologies in ethico-eco-philosophical zero-gravity. The Enlightened Human calls this weightlessness Freedom. Enlightened ecologies are spheres of existence flattened into two dimensions: Property and Profit. Enlightened ecologies are hierarchical rather than rhizomatic. They are latitudinal and longitudinal, surface and flesh, black and white. The quintessential Enlightened ecology is the plantation. In plantation ecologies, Earth is emptied of Native peoples and knowledge through genocidal clearing; enslaved Black bodies are emptied of humanity; the indwelling value of the Black Earth is transfigured into a financial abstraction. Plantation ecologies are invasive: Once industrial monocrop agriculture has drained life from soil, the oil industry spreads throughout the Black Earth’s fractal viscera; her skin crawls with prisons and petrochemical plants.17 Plantation ecologies are virulent: As capitalism advances and thickens like a strangling fruit,18 all the world becomes a plantation. The habituating force and raison d’être of the plantation ecology is Death. 5. The Black Earth asks me: What does it mean for Black people to fight for the rights of Nature when y’all are still fighting for your basic human rights? In the light, the equation of existence appears reducible to division. Darkness multiplies. In the light, knowledge of the world appears in sharp relief. Darkness holds a more intimate wisdom we are once again coming to sense: What has been called darkness, the unknown, the void, the abyss, empty space, we now know as dark matter. Dark matter is the glue that holds existence together.19 Perhaps we can think dark matter through another, older name: Kinship. I answer the Black Earth through my bodies: The rights of nature and human rights must be won ecologically, in solidarity, as kin. Perhaps we can think kinship through another, simpler name: Love. Little by little (or perhaps more rapidly from the perspective of the Black Earth) Enlightened Humanity is coming to recognize the need for the dark wisdom it worked hard to extinguish. More and more, Western scholars look with deference and humility toward Anishinaabe Original Instructions,20 toward Quechua Sumak Kawsay,21 toward Aboriginal dreaming.22 They spin the West around to face the rights of Nature: the eco-philosophical integrity of the world—the horizon. Yes: more and more. But where is Black Africa and her dark diaspora? So great is the world’s disregard for the Dark Continent and her people that few have noticed the absence of our eco-philosophical voices within the rising chorus of environmental scholarship. To survive climate change, humanity needs to get radical. To get radical means “to get to the root.”23 Black Africa is humanity’s root. Her uprooting seeds Enlightened ecologies. Her diasporic seeds are portals to other ecologies-of-being(s). As Malidoma Somé, a spiritual philosopher from the Dagara tribe of Burkina Faso, affirms,24&nbsp; the time has come for African philosophy to be recognized beyond the realm of anthropology. It is time for Black studies to be re-read ecologically and for the de-Enlightening world to sit quietly and listen rapturously to Black people’s perspectives on ecological re-integration. 6. Black ecologies travel with the Black body on tides of cellular memory and seed the gaps between worlds. Their ancestors are the brown bodies of wetlands—fecund cradles of more-than-human life, which the Enlightened Human classifies beneath whiter sands and bluer waters; which the Human carves up, drains of vitality and disappears to make way for industrial development; and which, despite this degradation and debasement, remain merciful hosts to migrating maroons of all species.25 Black ecologies wink into existence as resistance to plantation ecologies. Ecological resistance emerges from the cypress trees in whose crowns we crouch, muskets over shoulders, listening for dogs; the Indigenous nations who welcome us into their families; the handfuls of Europeans who join us, refusing the role of Colonizer;26 the parakeets who nest near us, fleeing their own deaths on plantations;27 the mud sinks who grab at the legs of slave catchers, stealing their balance; the mosquitoes who bite at us all, knowing that the sweetness of flesh is not carried in color; and the soils who cocoon our bodies while the worms and roaches return us to freedom in oneness with the Black Earth. Black ecologies know our suffering, struggle and survival. They are our suffering, struggle and survival. Black ecologies persist today as the human bodies that block pipelines and petrochemical plants. They are cultivated by human hands, stained with shadows of indigo,28 oil, and blood, which plant marsh grasses in humble rituals of repair. They blossom, as memories of plantation plots,29 in community gardens and in secret jars in solitary confinement cells.30 They flourish as Great Green Walls31 dreamed up from African sacred groves.32 Black ecologies are syncretic: Like resistance to slavery, which often germinated in the spirtitual grounds of vodou, santería and candomblé, they generate systems for mutual living—living systems—by synergizing poetry and science, past and future, teachings from North, South, East and West, networking the many into the one. Black ecologies are diasporic: They spread to the rhythm of grandma’s knitting needles, weaving the world’s loving reintegration. Whatever their scale, they are expansive because they photosynthesize the wisdom of more-than-human ancestors. Black ecologies cannot decompose Timothy Morton’s plastic Dark Ecology, a philosophy of “coexistence” that holds no space for the repair of racism.33 Nor are Black ecologies fooled by the Cartesian logics that tell us that Black is the lowest point on the spectrum to White. Black ecologies laugh with deadly gravity at the confusion of Enlightened Human Reason: Black is not the absence of light; Black absorbs light, holding it close to its bosom. Black ecologies are the nadir to Enlightenment’s zenith.34 Enlightenment has lifted us to unthinkable heights of madness; Black ecologies reorient us intuitively toward the Black Earth. Black ecologies don’t upend the hierarchy that places Black people at the bottom of Humanity and Humanity above the Black Earth, shifting Black to the top and White to the bottom, but rather explode it outward from the base. Humanity will horizontalize, lying prostrate as humble human, not just big toes35 but whole bodies pressing into the ground in a sublime encounter with our planet, with our kin, with ourselves. Black ecologies will hold us all. 7. This is why Black bodies are key and coup in Humanity’s war against existence. Black bodies can jump the broom over and beyond dishonored Humanity and land not as Human, but more-than-human, not as thing, but everything. Black ecologies multiply; they are migratory; they resist ecologies of extinction. Don’t be frightened; Black ecologies won’t replace you, they will repair you; they will restore Us. Reparations for racial capitalism are owed, but not only through financial settlement. Landscape reparations are owed, but not only through the removal of racist monuments. Land restitution is owed, but not only through the acknowledgment of Indigenous names. The reparations that are owed will return land to people and people to earth and both to ecological being(s). Black ecologies are the sacred relations through which ecological reparations can be offered to our segregated Earth. Through the cultivation of Black ecologies, the wholly Enlightened Earth may yet become a Black whole. 1.&nbsp; In her book, A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None, author Kathryn Yusoff engages a “citation practice” to draw Black feminist voices into majority-White conversations about the Anthropocene, arguing that every Black death is a Golden Spike precipitating climate change. This text, a response to her opening, looks to and beyond the boundary events of Black Anthropocenes to call for a conceptualization of Black ecologies. 2.&nbsp; Columbus arrives on the Taíno island Guanahani in the Bahamas, Caribbean Sea. 3.&nbsp; The first enslaved Africans are kidnapped to North America. 4.&nbsp; The first Portuguese slave ships return from Guinea. 5.&nbsp; The first Slave Codes come into force in the Virginia Colony. 6.&nbsp; “This cycle [of English social paranoia and violence against free Afro-Americans] articulates the structure of racialization that has given rise to the modern American concept of "race." That is, this new white cultural identity, constructed through and on an imposed social category differential between the English and the Africans as wholly "other," then formed the basis for the modern concept of racialization.” See: Steve Martinot, “Motherhood and the Invention of Race,” originally published in Hypatia 22(2), Spring 2007. Available at: https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~marto/mother.htm#nt3.7.&nbsp; See: Katherine McKittrick, Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006). 8.&nbsp; These taxonomic descriptions are omitted from the most accessible sources of information on Linnaeus’ binomial nomenclature, e.g. Wikipedia. Cited from Audrey Smedley, Race in North America: Origin and Evolution of a Worldview, 2018.9.&nbsp; Wynter writes: “In the wake of the West’s second wave of imperial expansion, pari passu with its reinvention of Man now purely biologized terms, it was to be the peoples of Black African descent who would be constructed as the ultimate referent of the “racially inferior” Human Other, with the range of other colonized dark-skinned peoples, all classified as “natives,” now being assimilated to its category—all of these as the ostensible embodiment of the non-evolved backward Others—if to varying degrees and, as such, the negation of the generic “normal humanness,” ostensibly expressed by and embodied in the peoples of the West.” See: Wynter, 2003.10. Glossary. A cosmology is a branch of both metaphysics and astronomy that conceives of the origin and structure of the universe, including its constituents and components, elements and interconnections, causalities and consequences, laws and freedoms, space and time. 11. Glossary. After an action is performed; in legal parlance, after a crime has been committed. 12.&nbsp; Glossary. noun: 1. A supernatural limbo or purgatory of ghosts. 2. Inbetweens are the drawings which create the illusion of motion. verb: 1. in animation, the process of generating intermediate frames between two images, called key frames, to give the appearance that the first image evolves smoothly into the second image. 13.&nbsp; Glossary. noun. A state of imbalance between the types of bacteria present in the bacterial ecology, or microbiota, of a person’s body, which leads to dis-ease. 14.&nbsp; Aimé Cesaire, “Poetry and Knowledge,” in Lyric and Dramatic Poetry, 1946-1982, The University Press of Virginia: 1990. 15.&nbsp; Bonnie Basler, “How bacteria ‘talk,’” TED 2009. Last accessed 13 Aug 2020. Available at: https://www.ted.com/talks/bonnie_bassler_how_bacteria_talk/transcript. 16.&nbsp; Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (New York: Grove Press, [1961] 2004), 9. 17.&nbsp; See, e.g.: Imani Jacqueline Brown, “Should we consider fossil fuel extraction an unjust enterprise?,” Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, 2 Feb 2020. Last accessed: 31 Jul 2020. available at: https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/should-we-consider-fossil-fuel-extraction-an-unjust-enterprise 18.&nbsp; From: James Vandermeer, Annihilation (London: 4th Estate, 2014). 19.&nbsp; “Dark matter … helps protect [stars] against the tidal forces of the massive host galaxy.” See: S. De Rijcke, S. J. Penny, C. J. Conselice, S. Valcke, E. V. Held, “Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society,” Volume 393, Issue 3, March 2009, Pages 798–807, https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/393/3/798/967373. 20.&nbsp; A cosmology, or living philosophy, of Indigenous peoples of the Great Lakes region of Turtle Island (aka North America). The Original Instructions remind humans how to exist in and with the world with care and reciprocity. See: Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass (Penguin Books, 2013). 21.&nbsp; Translated as “Buen Vivir,” or “good living,” sumak kawsay is a cosmology, or living philosophy, of the Quechua peoples throughout South America. It reminds humans how to live in communities of ecological and cultural harmony. See, e.g.: https://www.pachamama.org/sumak-kawsay. 22.&nbsp; An Aboriginal Australian philosophy of communion with human and more-than-human ancestors, grounded in the interconnectivity of all elements of existence. For more, see: Elizabeth Povinelli, Geontologies; A Requiem to Late Liberalism (Duke University Press, 2015). 23.&nbsp; Quite literally the denotative meaning. “I use the term radical in its original meaning—getting down to and understanding the root cause. It means facing a system that does not lend itself to your needs and devising means by which you change that system.” Quoted in Barbara Ransby, Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003), 1. 24.&nbsp; Malidoma Patrice Some, Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman, Penguin, 1994. 25.&nbsp; For more on Creole maroon villages in Louisiana’s swamps, see: Kalamu ya Salam, “History: Jean Saint-Malo, New Orleans Maroon,” Neo-Griot: Kalamu ya Salaam’s blog, 19 Jun 2012. Last accessed 17 Aug 2020. Available at: https://kalamu.posthaven.com/history-jean-saint-malo-new-orleans-maroon-ex. 26.&nbsp; For more on colonial refusal and tri-racial isolate communities, see: James Koehnline, ed., Gone to Croatan: Origins of North American Dropout Culture (Autonomedia, 1994). 27.&nbsp; J. Drew Lanham, “Forever Gone,” Orion Magazine, 2018. Last accessed: 31 Jul. 2020. Available at: https://orionmagazine.org/article/forever-gone/. 28.&nbsp; Glossary. As Tiffany Lethabo King writes in The Black Shoals, Indigo-stained hands are the shadowy trace of Black human a priori and a posteriori merger with nonhuman existence on and beyond the plantation. 29.&nbsp; See: Sylvia Wynter, “Novel and History, Plot and Plantation,” Savacou, vol. 5, 1971. 30. “Jackie, in your letter you asked me: “What sort of house does a man who has lived in a 6’ x 9’ cell for over 30-years dream of?!”— In the front of the house I have 3- squares of gardens. The gardens are the easiest for me to imagine, and I can see they would be certain to be full of gardenias, carnations and tulips. This is of the utmost importance. I would like for guests to be able to smile and walk through flowers all year long.” -- Herman Wallace, excerpt from a letter to jackie sumell, February 1, 2006. Activist and former Black Panther Herman Wallace was held in solitary confinement for 41 years for a crime he did not commit. While imprisoned, he made many attempts to grow plants in his jail cell. Herman was exonerated of all charges on October 1, 2013. He passed away three days later. For more, see: Solitary Gardens, http://www.soliarygardens.org. 31.&nbsp; Glossary. A pan-African project to seed a mosaic of forests across the Sahel, from Senegal to Djibouti. This region is the frontline of desertification, which propels Africa’s people to attempt dangerous migration of Europe. This desertification is the product not only of climate change, which is an indirect consequence of Enlightened ecologies, but also of largely French colonial land use practices that uprooted Indigenous land tenureship and imposed a system of industrial plantation agriculture. 32.&nbsp; See, e.g.: Michael J Sheridan and Celia Nyamweru, African Sacred Groves: Ecological Dynamics and Social Change (Ohio University Press, 2008). 33.&nbsp; Morton dedicates the following five sentences to dismiss concerns (raised by Black and Brown, feminist, post-colonial scholars and activists) that ascribing undifferentiated blame for climate change to the entire human population, regardless of actual and historical national and cultural responsibility, is racist (and precludes our ability to actually redress climate change and its related ills): “The user of Anthropocene is saying that humans as a race are responsible, and while this really means white humans, whites go unmarked. There is such a thing as the human. But human need can not be something that is ontically given: we can’t see it or touch it or designate it as present in some way (as whiteness or not-blackness et cetera). There is no obvious, constantly present positive content to the human. So Anthropocene isn’t racist.” See: Timothy Morton, Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence (New York: Columbia University Press, 2016). 34.&nbsp; Glossary. In Arabic, “nadir” means “counterpoint.” Astronomically, the term is used to reference the lowest point in the sky, named as the opposition to the highest point—the “zenith.” It also carries the secondary meaning of: “the lowest point in a person’s spirit.” Black ecologies reject the oppositional astronomical and colloquial language in favor of the Arabic original, which implies balance rather than contestation. 35.&nbsp; “[...]The function of the human foot consists in giving a firm foundation to the erection of which man is so proud [...] But whatever the role played in the erection by his foot, man, who has a light head, in other words a head raised to the heavens and heavenly things, sees it as spit, on the pretext that he has this foot in the mud.” See: Georges Bataille, "The Big Toe,” in Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939, trans. Allan Stoekl, with Carl R. Lovitt and Donald M. Leslie, Jr. (Minneapolis: UMP, [1929] 1985). Available at: https://supervert.com/elibrary/georges-bataille/the-big-toe. 36.&nbsp;Theodore W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments. (Stanford University Press, 2002 [1987]), 1. —