Planetary Portals

"Planetary Portals offers a fresh analytic for grappling with the infrastructural entanglements of empire from east London to Southern Africa, and for rematerializing colonial debris for world reconstitution. The book's conceptual ambition, empirical breadth, and progressive implications for the urgent work of repair will make it a landmark text for a long time."-Cajetan Iheka, author of African Ecomedia: Network Forms, Planetary Politics

"In pursuit of a planetary scent, Planetary Portals takes us below and above ground, and vertically and horizontally through geological time to surface the long shadow of colonial burrowing and extraction. The portal is a scalpel, a mirror, a rock hammer, and a conjuring to expose the violent capillaries of racial capitalism. This work is a methodical innovation and an accomplished conceptual planetary guide through the past and into the current century. "-Hugo ka Canham, Professor of Black Planetary Studies and author of Riotous Deathscapes and Black Undertow

"This book brilliantly amplifies the portal as a methodology for travelling into, across and beyond empire. Sucking, swirling, building and extending, the portal is conceived as a way of tracking the material, imaginary and subjective extractive infrastructures of mining minerals and data. This spatial dynamic allows the book to both richly interrogate forms of racialised profit-making and to make some generative moves towards other, more fractured and reparative ways of imagining planetary relations."-Gillian Rose, Professor of Human Geography, Fellow of the British Academy and Academy of Social Sciences, University of Oxford