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— a poem on "the language of colonizers, in which you have to capitalize the letter you use to mention yourself."
EXTRACTIVISM | Solidified Settler Perception
EXTRACTIVISM | Solidified Settler Perception
Visual culture allows us to trace the ways Crimean Tatars have pursued land reclamation as a spatial and temporal project that contests settler colonial occupation and its racial regime of ownership.
EXTRACTIVISM | Water-time in İz Öztat’s artistic practice
EXTRACTIVISM | Water-time in İz Öztat’s artistic practice
Artist İz Öztat’s engagement with water, which was central to her work in the mid-2010s, offers different forms of non-linear time and builds relations across time, space, and species to recall a history of genocide.
One day a general concern: All artists, think of the Earth
One day a general concern: All artists, think of the Earth
Reaching back to a statement uttered by curator Scott Watson in the 1980s, “Art is not a general concern,” the recent wave of environmental art actions are examined within a history of art vandalisms, representation in media and popular culture, and their potential for political agency (or lack thereof).
EXTRACTIVISM | Memories of the sea
EXTRACTIVISM | Memories of the sea
Mainstream accounts refer to the coastal regions of Kutch as wasteland, as submerged lands, as marginal—words that indicate a lack of human use and value. But these amphibious geographies have been inhabited for centuries by the fishing community and the pastoral Fakirani jat communities, a presence and livelihood that contests this presumed lack.
EXTRACTIVISM | Introduction to the dossier
EXTRACTIVISM | Introduction to the dossier
How are images implicated in the increasingly diversified and expansive ways in which industrial-scale extractive methods and practices operate? To what extent do the ways images are produced, circulated, theorized, and politicized mirror or challenge extractive methods and practices?
EXTRACTIVISM | Sonic blind spots: Acoustic research in the Lower Mississippi River
EXTRACTIVISM | Sonic blind spots: Acoustic research in the Lower Mississippi River
Documenting the lower Mississippi River as an acoustic space reveals already existing power dimensions at play before they become fully legible as symptoms of extractive dispossession. Analysing the politics of vibration, emission sources, and bandwidth use inequalities can reveal much about the colonial regime of extractive infrastructures by exposing the disassembled temporalities of the extractive event.
EXTRACTIVISM | Notes on processes of unearthing: Wildfires and the entanglements of space on the unceded lands known as California
EXTRACTIVISM | Notes on processes of unearthing: Wildfires and the entanglements of space on the unceded lands known as California
Thinking with entanglements of the wildfires on the unceded lands known as California and that is dedicated to analysing and locating openings to dismantle the abstraction that is the wildland-urban interface.
EXTRACTIVISM | Ben Asamoah’s Sakawa (2018) and the Problem of e-Waste
EXTRACTIVISM | Ben Asamoah’s Sakawa (2018) and the Problem of e-Waste
Sakawa—a combination of internet fraud, traditionalist African ritual practice, and gender performance—is not a quirky consequence of increasing West African access to digital technologies but rather a response to colonial economic policies that continue to designate Africa as a site for extracting mineral resources and discarding waste.