A Note  ix
From the Lab Notebooks of the Last Experiments  3
Archive of Dirt: What We Did  31
Archive of Sky: What We Became  71
Archive of Fire: Rate of Change  89
Archive of Ocean: Origin  105
Baskets (Possible Futures Yet to Be Woven)  133
Memory Drive  185
Acknowledgments  213
Notes  217
Periodic Kitchen Table of Elements  227

"M Archive adds to and extends the critical work being done around breath, breathing, and blackness. And in so doing, it gives us a reason to breathe – independently and collectively – again."
  — Sasha Panaram, New Black Man in Exile

"Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a literary treasure. M Archive, the second book in an innovative trilogy that began with Spill, is evidence of her brilliance." — Bitch Magazine

"Groundbreaking.... This is an impressive archive 'written in collaboration with the survivors' and the mythology that Gumbs develops from the artifacts of future black life and memory works to reveal an existence 'on the verge of regenerating the cells that would let us dream deep enough to remember.'” — Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

"The end of the world is no joke! This text is clearly ambitious. More compendium than chronicle, the writing is poetic, dense, and often solemn with glimmers of dark wit." — Gabrielle Civil, Full Stop

"Offers a set of necessary and stimulating interventions . . . A generous work that challenges dominant views that assume that ancestral speculative work has no place in feminist theory." — Chandra Frank, Feminist Formations

"M Archive adds to and extends the critical work being done around breath, breathing, and blackness. And in so doing, it gives us a reason to breathe – independently and collectively – again."
  —Sasha Panaram, New Black Man in Exile

"Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a literary treasure. M Archive, the second book in an innovative trilogy that began with Spill, is evidence of her brilliance." —Bitch Magazine

"Groundbreaking.... This is an impressive archive 'written in collaboration with the survivors' and the mythology that Gumbs develops from the artifacts of future black life and memory works to reveal an existence 'on the verge of regenerating the cells that would let us dream deep enough to remember.'” —Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

"The end of the world is no joke! This text is clearly ambitious. More compendium than chronicle, the writing is poetic, dense, and often solemn with glimmers of dark wit." —Gabrielle Civil, Full Stop

"Offers a set of necessary and stimulating interventions . . . A generous work that challenges dominant views that assume that ancestral speculative work has no place in feminist theory." —Chandra Frank, Feminist Formations

"Alexis Pauline Gumbs presents a brilliant, highly original theorization of the impact of a dystopic reality on black consciousness and black bodies, asking: how will they act as archives of the end of the world as we know it? By articulating black bodies as critical sites of archival knowledge, Gumbs reads them beyond historical notions of catastrophic suffering as racialized subjects." — Alexis De Veaux, author of, Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde

“Reading this gift of writing I keep gasping! Is Alexis writing from the bottom of the ocean, or the far-off future, or from inside the mind of God-is-change? How does she see everything so clearly? How does she make such incredible connections for us? This writing is generous and genius. It feels like fiction that taps into the deepest vein of sentience, that is also instantly sacred text. Thank you, Alexis, and bless you.” — adrienne maree brown, author of, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

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