Exterranean: Extraction in the Humanist AnthropoceneExterranean concerns the extraction of stuff from the Earth, a process in which matter goes from being sub to exterranean. By shifting emphasis from emission to extraction, Usher reorients our perspective away from Earthrise like globes and shows what is gained by opening the planet to depths within. Both historicist and speculative in approach, Exterranean eschews the self congratulatory claims of posthumanism and lays the groundwork for a