Terracene

“An innovative, timely, and eminently teachable book, Terracene is part of an exciting new wave of new materialist thought that challenges speciesism, decenters the human, and destabilizes the category of the human altogether. Salar Mameni writes beautifully, weaving memoir and personal vignettes with deep theorizing that demonstrates bright flashes of genius throughout. They bring together the best of critical race, Indigenous, and postcolonial scholarship to bear on the dystopian here and now of climate chaos and terrorized world-making. In short, Terracene is a sensation.” - Ronak K. Kapadia, author of Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War

“In compelling visual analysis, Salar Mameni shows us how the colonial construction of terror has violently homed in on racialized bodies and environments. Through an aesthetics of revolt forged in opposition to the pincer movement of the inhumane-inhuman, Mameni confronts the weaponization of environments in their narrativization.” - Kathryn Yusoff, author of A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None

"What makes this book particularly refreshing is its formal qualities. Between its more academic close readings, Mamani weaves poetic personal narratives and autobiographical accounts of his aesthetic experiences. Terracene demonstrates an avenue for academic writing that can more readily navigate the divide between academic and public intellectualism." - Kyle Sittig, H-Environment, H-Net Reviews

"Mameni’s work [is] indispensable in making sense of an increasingly incomprehensible world." - Jasmine Sanau, Film-Philosophy