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From Planetary Core to the High Seas

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For the last seven years, I've been engaged in research into extractive supply chains for specific objects I bundled. That research gave me a place to begin storytelling from: to question my role in systems of global oppression, and then imagine what is possible from there. I asked myself: What really are some of the environmental, economic, and political implications of specific objects? In this essay, I share two of those research practices. Blockades, Boulders, and Weights are provocative amalgamations of objects that ask people to consider overconsumption. Swale is a floating food forest that uses the common law of the waterways as a loophole to do what was illegal on common land. Were these performances absurd, or are the systems of extractions and continuous growth, systems of circulation and production, the real absurdity?

Keywords: agroforestry ; coal ; consumption ; deep time ; energy ; food forest ; geology ; global commons ; mining ; open ocean ; quarries ; Ralph Waldo Emerson ; supply chain ; water ; water law

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From Planetary Core to the High Seas
Intellect , 226 (2024); https://doi.org/10.1386/9781789389067_15
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     [Google Scholar]
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     [Google Scholar]
  3. Cronon, William (2013), Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England, rev. ed., New York: Hill and Wang.
     [Google Scholar]
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