Salar Mameni historicizes the popularization of the scientific notion of the Anthropocene alongside the emergence of the global war on terror. Mameni theorizes the Terracene as an epoch marked by a convergence of racialized militarism and environmental destruction.

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