I’m a STEM worker: a graduate student, trainee, fellow, investigator—whatever the job title may be. As someone who works in a lab, I am expected to work through the weekend and past my contracted hours in the week. I like the idea of...
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Historian of science Gregg Mitman tells the surprisingly 'American' history of Liberia, revealing the complexity of an imperial and settler-colonial project carried out ostensibly in the name of Black freedom and the scientific...
From copper in Chile, gold in South Africa, to rare earth elements in China, extraction delimits world history and the current geopolitical landscape. Natural resources are not neutral; we must understand who extracts them, where do they...
Why do I keep talking about memories?
Summer falls, and I peel open the scab
I’ve chosen not to open until now.
Oil kills everything—the land, the mangrove,
the water bodies and the creek.
In the Anthropocene era, extractivism has become a core symptom of the planetary disease of late capitalism/imperialism, threatening humanity and the inhabitants of the earth in general.
Antibiotics are extracted from soil microorganisms, whose evolution for millions of years created the molecules that fueled modern medicine. But just like fossil capitalism, expropriation of nature creates an irreparable ecological rift.
تتبعاً للفكر الثوري عند ماو وفانون وكابرال، ألح صلاح الدين العمامي أن العلم والتكنولوجيا هما المفتاح للتحرير الوطني: لا يقتصر ذلك لفك تبعية السيطرة الامبريالية على أنماط الإنتاج، بل يضم أيضاً التطور التكنولوجيا بنائاً على أنماط تتناسب مع...
Scarcity of safe water in many places around the world has been made worse by a worldwide wave of privatization: the overexploitation of aquifers, the sale of bottled water, industrial and agricultural pollution, large hydroelectric...
El agua es un recurso esencial para la vida. Sin embargo, surcamos desde hace años una ola privatizadora que acentúa las desigualdades en el acceso al agua. La sobreexplotación de los acuíferos, la venta de agua embotellada, la...
The extraction of financial assets in cryptocurrency requires physical space and tremendous amounts of energy. Its environmental impacts are recognized and resisted by local residents and scientists in Lake Seneca, New York.