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From the eighteenth century onwards, Western science began to tap a large, yet non-renewable, capital store of energy. This transition from agricultural production dependent upon the flow of annual cycles (the sun) to industrial production based on the usage and subsequent depletion of energy stocks (the burning of fossil fuels) peaked around 1860, and the period that follows roughly coincides with what genocide scholar Dirk Moses has dubbed “the racial century”— that is, the epoch when all political questions are articulated in the language of biology. This book considers the question: Why does the transition to fossil fuels entail an intensification of ongoing processes of racialization? One way of understanding these dynamics is to examine how both processes work in tandem with, and under the aegis of, a chronopolitical schema.