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In The States of the Earth, Mohamed Amer Meziane contends that “Secularization is not the decline of religion but the birth of a new climatic order” (xiv). Using Sylvia Wynter, I trace how antiblackness is a precursor to processes of secularization as well as that which organizes not a “new climatic order,” but an enduring Christian medieval geographic order that renders black spaces climatic to extract from the earth. Weathering black spaces unveils the “energic” function of black fungibility (Hartman 1997) in which blackness functions as an open state of energy which can be converted from one form to another (Lethabo King 2019). Black energic fungibility subjects black bodies to forms of extraction (Williams 1995) but also reveals possibilities for black life to transform and maneuver beyond “states of the earth.” Attention to the construction of blackness reveals a different story and emphasis on secularization, imperiality, energy extraction, and climate.