Fossils, rock art, and seismic cinema are mobilized as “negative” earth-forms that scramble origin stories and temporal regimes, shifting geology from a stable archive of matter into a contested interface where life/nonlife, cause/effect, and human/nonhuman agencies co-compose planetary history. Against Cartesian extinction and the carbon paradigm, the text tracks how hermetic cosmologies, sensory mediation, and contemporary art expose extractive modernity’s necropolitical inheritance—where sovereignty and capital convert earth ancestry into resource, deletion, and anticipatory catastrophe.

Anthropocene discourse is framed as the terminal crisis of the Axial Age’s transcendence-based “equipment” (universal history, time’s primacy, Nature/Culture dualism), whose modern immanentization as scientific Super-Nature and fossil-capitalist cosmotechnics has produced a negative universal history tending toward self-extinction. Against this exhausted philosophy of history, a Latourian “spatial turn” and Gaia-oriented cosmopolitics revalue pre-/extra-axial ‘compact’ immanence and Indigenous earth-relations, recasting political action as reclaiming terrestrial space—where ‘the past is yet to come’—from the imperial, extractivist monoculture of ánthrōpos.