Contents
Preface
Introduction: Permafrost Life
1. Earth
A Global Permafrost Apocalypse
Permafrost Science at the Pleistocene Park
The Pleistocene Park as Planetary Redemption
Chersky and the Mainland
Permafrost Ruptures and Island Apocalypses
Reimagining the Planetary
The Lives All Around
2. Ice
Yakutian Refrigerators
The Antipermafrost and Extinction in the Permafrost Tunnel
The Permafrost Law and Inhuman Subjectivity
Does Permafrost Breathe?
Permafrost as Commodity and the Hunt for White Gold
Unearthing Multiplicity through Stories
The Lives Underfoot
3. Bone
Permafrost Underground and the Verticality of Time
Deep Pasts: The Super-terrestrial with(out) Humans
Shallow Histories: The Soviet Union and the Genesis of the Pleistocene Park
(Re)emergent Landscapes and the Intricacies of Reproduction
Animal Agencies and Skeletal Afterlives
The Subterranean as a Future Repository
The Lives Coming Back
4. Blood
Mammoth Histories
(Un)broken Lineages and Blood Ties
Entering the Cryobank
The Cryopolitics of Future Life
Immortality and Resurrection in the Secular Age
Giving Up on Life
The Lives of the Future
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index