Week 12: The geology of media, media and decoloniality, mining and minerality.
Read before class:
Macarena Gómez-Barris, “Introduction: Submerged perspectives,” The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives (Duke UP, 2015). 1-16.
Otobang Nkanga, “In Pursuit of Bling,” 2014, https://www.afterall.org/articles/blue-bling-on-extractivism/
Antonio López, “Book Review: A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None,” Review of A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None, by Kathryn Yusoff. Media+Environment (2021), https://doi.org/10.1525/001c.27370.
Matt Parker, “Communities of Electromagnetic Resistance: More-than-Human Responses to a Wireless World,” Sonic Urbanism: Listening to Non-Human Life, ed. George Kafka (Theatrum Mundi and &beyond collective, 2021).