Precarity in a Black Anthropocene: Black Aesthetics and Climate Change on a Broken Earth
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Precarity has become an important concern in International Relations, driven in part by the crisis of climate change, environmental destruction, and mass extinction. The rise of precarity is increasingly discussed in relation to the critique of modernity and the Anthropocene, as political concern grows about the potential “end of the world.” Building on work in aesthetic politics, and recent discussions in Black Studies, this paper engages with the speculative fiction of NK Jemisin to think through the relationship between Blackness, materiality, and precarity. Through reading Jemisin, we can gain a better understanding of the entanglement of race, climate change, and modernity in creating the conditions for the Anthropocene, as well as opening up a space for alternative ways of addressing the crisis. The paper highlights the ways that Jemisin’s work allows us to think about climate change through the entanglement of the social, the material and the racial, allows for cyclical or non-linear temporal narratives, and speculatively explores the ways that racialized people helped to create but can also destabilize the conditions of the Anthropocene.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.015 | 0.047 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".