For

the

Earth,

It’s

Not

a

Secret:

Nolan

Oswald

Dennis

in

Conversation

with

Zoë

Hopkins

What is the topographical richness, the sediment, or the soil from which Black liberationist and decolonial speculation effloresces? What fissures and frays emerge at the edges of science, mathematics, and geology when these disciplines originate not with the analytic desire for mastery and extraction, but with an undisciplined giving to, and with, the irreducible density of the Earth? How do Black, Indigenous, and queer entanglements with the Earth sing of a renewed thought of the world? These are among the questions that tremor in the subsoil of Nolan Oswald Dennis’s practice. Toward an undoing of the world as it has been schematized by modernity and racial capitalism, Dennis moves with the many worlds that are assembled and imagined by African and diasporic ecological and cosmo-poetic thought. Their formal and material approaches are invested with the rigor and precision of scientific grammars, but elasticized by Dennis’s commitment to the poetics and metaphysics of Black consciousness.