[Environment-readinggroup] Environment-readinggroup Digest, Vol 10, Issue 3

Aparna Krishna apar.krish1 at gmail.com
Thu Jan 18 14:21:26 CET 2024


Dear team,

I'm a little confused on how to participate in the reading group.

Could you please help me out with the process?

Thank you!
-Aparna

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>    1. Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Achille Mbembe references (Janna Frenzel)
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> From: Janna Frenzel <jannafrenzel at posteo.net>
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> Subject: [Environment-readinggroup] Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Achille
>         Mbembe references
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> Hi all,
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> Here are the references to Ruth Wilson Gilmore's and Achille Mbembe's
> work that I promised to send re: yesterday's discussion on structural
> violence and disposability:
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> "Premature death"
> -- comes from Wilson Gilmore's 2007 book, "Golden Gulag: Prisons,
> Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California [1]", where
> she defines structural racism as "state-sanctioned or extralegal
> production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to
> premature death"
>
> "Necropolitics" by Mbembe
> -- "sovereignty means the capacity to define who matters and who does
> not, who is disposable and who is not" (from 2003 article [2] in the
> section on "Necropower and Late Modern Colonial Occupation")
> -- further elaborated in 2019 book [3]
>
> This also resonates with what Murrey and Mollett write in their article,
> "Extraction is not a metaphor: Decolonial and Black Geographies against
> the gendered and embodied violence of extractive logics [4]"
> -- "Extractivisms, as enmeshed logic and material practice, preclude and
> foreclose certain futures and foster a socio-economic context in which
> people are compelled to buy into extractivism as the only possible
> future. Political ecologists thus write about the attritional violence
> of extraction, in which 'death-worlds' are created where people are
> subject to physical and psychological threats of imminent death."
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> See you at the next session,
> Janna
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> --
> Janna Frenzel
> jannafrenzel.com
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> Links:
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> [1] https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520242012/golden-gulag
> [2]
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> https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/postgraduate/masters/modules/theoryfromthemargins/mbembe_22necropolitics22.pdf
> [3] https://www.dukeupress.edu/necropolitics
> [4] https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tran.12610
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> From: maxigas at criticalinfralab.net
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> hello,
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> my notes from today are appended to the top of the pad here:
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>   https://pad.criticalinfralab.net/8k7xpcXNQWSlZfGH8iNpBw?edit
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> and also attached to this message.
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> in solidarity,
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> co-pi critical infrastructure lab
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> Assistant Professor of Computational Methods
> Department of Media and Culture Studies
> University of Utrecht
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> PAPER => Geopolitics in the infrastructural ideology of 5G
>           by Maxigas and Niels ten Oever
>           Open access: doi.org/10.1177/20594364231193950
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> BOOK ==> Resistance to the Current: The Dialectics of Hacking
>           by Johan S?derberg and Maxigas, foreword by Richard Barbrook
>           Catalog: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262544566/
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