As geographers confront the manifold challenges of an Anthropocene, so the framing of geography as the critical study of space – a framing that took hold of theory and practice in the 20th century and that searched for antecedents as well as prognostications – is increasingly splayed across the long durée of geography as the interrogation of the nature of human being as well as the Earthly environment and the constitutive relations between these. While the prospect of a new geologic epoch situates these Anthropocene challenges as the conjunction of a human history with the deep time of the planet, it also suggests, for example, the entanglement of the geopolitical and the geophysical, an entanglement that the (colonial and imperialising) discipline of geography has helped to articulate and produce even while proffering an explanation of the same. In pivoting back once more to the knotty matter of geopolitics and geophysics, what concepts and lexicons might be productive? Here, and thinking through the work that terrain has done and can do, I offer the multi-agential, survey defying, taxonomically mutable, drifting geographies of drift that have been so perturbing to a solid geology and its stratigraphic tempo, and hence can, perhaps, provide another resource from which to construe the political materialities of an Anthropocene.

随着地理学家面临人类世时代的种种挑战，地理学的框架作为空间的批判性研究（在20世纪占据了理论和实践的基础，并在寻找先例和预后的框架中）日益受到关注。地理学的长期历史，是对人类天性以及地球环境和它们之间的本构关系的审讯。尽管新的地质时代的前景将人类世与人类历史与地球深处的历史相结合，但这些挑战还表明，例如，地缘政治与地球物理的纠缠，（殖民地和人类的）纠缠。帝国主义）地理学科甚至在提供解释的同时也有助于阐明和产生。在再次转向地缘政治和地球物理学这个棘手的问题时，哪些概念和词典可能会产生成果？在这里，通过对地形已经完成和可以完成的工作进行思考，我提供了多角度，无视测量，分类学上易变的漂移漂移地理学，这些地理学一直对固体地质及其地层拍速产生很大的干扰，因此，也许提供另一种资源来解释人类世的政治实质。