The panel opens with a presentation by Joe Larios, who argues that efforts to recognize the Anthropocene as a geologic period through the 1952 golden spike of thermonuclear tests was always doomed to a sort of failure, even if it had succeeded. The impossibility of pinning down the Anthropocene makes sense precisely because what typifies the Anthropocene is rapid change thanks to human interventions. This era which we are in and yet cannot quite define, periodize, or fully situate is itself defined by the very elasticity of its own definition, an elasticity intrinsic to its very nature as multipolar. This paper thus explores the multiplicity, indeterminacy, and speed that typifies the many anthropocenes that make up our contemporary moment. Charlotte Rogers takes the “geological turn” in the humanities literally by arguing that when depicting ecological collapse, Latin American fiction goes underground. Playing with the literal and figurative senses of “underground,” meaning both subterranean and clandestine, she examines literature narrated from beyond the grave. Freed from the constraints of human timescales, posthumous narrators can consider the exceedingly long durée of the planet unencumbered by urgency or fear. They narrate from multispecies, more-than-human perspectives because they are themselves becoming worms, soil, and plants. This comparative ecocritical assessment of works by Latin American writers reveals a strikingly autonomous geological, climatic, and vegetal realm in the Latin American literary imaginary. Menuka Gurung turns to the Himalayan cryosphere, which has been in the spotlight of glacier politics ever since Mt. Everest was flagged as conquered by Euro-western powers. As one of the most conspicuous sites of the Anthropocene, that’s heavily surveilled, quantified, and politicized, the Himalayan cryosphere is now anything but a snowy land of mystic wilderness. Yet after nearly a century of “crisis rhetoric”, all we have is more alarming data and more distressed mountains. Why, then, is our “crisis rhetoric” falling short? Drawing from her encounter with Khumbu Glacier at the base of Mount Everest, her paper responds to the inquiry by advancing the concept of glacier rhetoric—a mode of nonhuman meaning-making rooted in the glacier’s temporal, material, and affective behaviors that resist human-centered legibility. Finally, Shawna Ross proposes that, in light of the intensified bureaucratic oversight institutions of higher education have recently experienced, Anthropocene scholars would do well to consider how they will respond to this probable increase in pressure from internal and external actors that may not consider climate change a scientific fact. This paper will provide a clear breakdown of how such interference on scholars outside of the physical sciences has recently occurred through (both normal and ad hoc) administrative processes and sketch a continuum of possible responses that we might take, all in the interests that we may continue our work as we see fit.