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catalyst-28799	Leong, Diana	The Mattering of Black Lives: Octavia Butler’s Hyperempathy and the Promise of the New Materialisms	2016		.htm	text/html	10657	548	50	In fact, from at least the 16th century onward, black bodies provided crucial raw material for the development of natural history, the natural sciences, and the life philosophies in Enlightenment thought.4 Both geology and biology, for example, pursued notions of species and evolution that preserved early racial taxonomies; the techniques of observation and interpretation used to analyze geological activity were the same as those employed by the racial science of phrenology. His claim that the concept of the Anthropocene reproduces race-making technologies gestures to the historical fact that the human as such has emerged through the exclusion and extermination of black bodies.	cache/catalyst-28799.htm	txt/catalyst-28799.txt