This article proposes the inhumanities as an analytic to address the material confluences of race and environment in the epistemic construction of the humanities and social sciences. As the Anthropocene represents an explicit formation of political geology, from its inception as a means to frame a crisis of environmental conditions to the characterization of future trajectories of extinction, I argue that centering race is a way to reconceptualize and challenge the disciplinary approaches of the humanities, humanism, and the Anthropocene (e.g., the environmental humanities and geohumanities¹). Foregrounding the conjoined historic geographies of racialization and ecological transformation through the discipline of geology, within the context of colonial and settler colonial extractivism, sets the conditions for thinking materially about decolonization as a geologic process. I make three interconnected points about the Anthropocene and inhumanities. First, the Anthropocene names a new field of geologically informed power relations that focus attention on the geographies of the inhuman, geologic forces, and the politics of nonlife. Second, the framing of the inhumanities forces a reckoning with the humanist liberal subject that orders the humanities: an invisible and indivisible white subject position that curates racialized geographies of environmental concern, impact, and futurity. Third, the inhumanities makes visible the historic double life of the inhuman as both matter and as a subjective racial category of colonial geographies and its extractive afterlives. In conclusion, I consider the emergence of geopower as a political technology of racial capitalism and governance of the present. Geopower, I argue, is the product of historical geologies of race that subtend a particular form of life marked by extractivism enacted on racialized geosocial strata.

本文提出非人性论作为分析人文和社会科学的认识论建构中种族与环境的物质融合的一种分析方法。由于人类世代表了政治地质的明确形成，从其开始是构筑环境条件危机的手段到表征未来的灭绝轨迹，我认为居中种族是重新概念化和挑战人类地质学科方法的一种方式。人文，人文主义和人类世（例如，环境人文和地球人文¹）。在殖民地和定居者殖民主义的抽烟主义的背景下，通过地质学科预测了种族化和生态转变的相关历史地理环境，为实质性地考虑将非殖民化作为一个地质过程提供了条件。我就人类世与非人性问题提出了三个相互联系的观点。首先，人类世为地理知情的权力关系开辟了一个新领域，该领域将注意力集中在非人类，地质力量和非生命政治的地理上。其次，非人文主义的构架迫使人们对人文主义的自由主体进行了排序，后者对人文学科进行了排序：一个无形和不可分割的白人主体地位，促进了对环境，影响和未来性的种族化地理分布。第三，非人性使得无论是物质还是殖民地地理学及其提取后世的主观种族类别，人类的历史双重生活都可见。总而言之，我认为，作为种族资本主义和现在的治理的政治技术，地力的出现。我认为，地力是种族历史地理学的产物，它是对种族化的地社会阶层实行的剥削主义标志的一种特殊的生活形式。