Salar Mameni is Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

Creation Story 1
Part 1. Terracene 11
1. Terror and the Anthropocene 13
2. Anti-Colonial Critique of the Anthropocene 22
3. Provincializing the Anthropocene; or, Why Artists, Feminists, and Yemeni People Have Much to Say about the Cosmos 27
4. The Anthropocene Is a Work of Art 40
5. The Terracene 46
6. Sensing the Terracene 51
7. Crude Aesthetics 70
Part 2. The Sounds of Terracene 81
8. The Class Shattered at My Feet 83
9. Listening to the Terracene 85
10. Shelter 104
11. Silence 106
Part 3. Terran Deities: Oil, Fires, Fevers 111
12. Lamassu 113
13. Huma 126
14. Homa
15. Pazuzu 134
Part 4. Narrative Terrorism 141
16. The Red Star 143
17. Narrative Terrorism 146
Part 5. Crude Aesthetics 161
18. Texas Crude 163
19. A Fire! 171
20. The Devil's Excrement 185
Acknowledgments 189
Notes 193
Bibliography 211
Index 223