Volcano Manifesto 

Cauleen Smith

• Title

  Volcano Manifesto 

• Date 2022
• Publisher Houston, Texas: F Magazine
• Description 39 p.; 6.5 in.
• Language English
• Collections Permanent Collection, inseparable assembly Reading Room
• Summary

  Cauleen Smith’s brilliant and psychedelic Volcano Manifesto is equal parts rigorous study and heart-wrenched plea. The Manifesto personifies the Volcano as the Mother, who creates new land unburdened by human history. Smith’s text employs genealogy as a metaphor and tool for the dismantling of capitalism, challenging the anti-Black position that Man holds ownership over Earth. Additionally, the Manifesto is a gathering of voices, as Smith’s text cycles through numerous historical quotations from Trinh T. Minh-ha, W.E.B. Du Bois, Fred Moten, Sylvia Wynter, Sitting Bull, and others. (Printed Matter)

• Tags Manifestos, Artist writing, Ecology and Environmentalism