Extraction and Land in Physics podcast

Extraction and Land in Physics

emma mckay

A thesis about mining, colonialism, and changing science. Written, read, and produced by Emma McKay, with production assistance from Ezra Teboul. Find the text of the thesis, including the references made in the audio version, here: https://stronglyinteracting.files.wordpress.com/2020/10/mckay-mrp.pdf

8 Episoder

Afterword
11.11.2020
0:53
if you'd like to talk, get in touch!
Chapter 6: Moving toward a landed physics
11.11.2020
43:37
giving some time to grief; there's no such thing as a clean mine; tactics for resisting the structure of extractivism through physics; letting go of physics as we know it
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Chapter 5: Physics phenomena are land, too
11.11.2020
54:58
describing and extending Barad's phenomena; complaining about how entanglement is not necessary to describe complex social systems; upending physics epistemology to focus on land
Chapter 4: The connections are deep: A land story of indium
11.11.2020
48:42
from neutron stars to the earth's crust, from workers underpaid hands to a slag-filled superfund site; some of the many connections built on violent colonial extractivism that take indium from the land to the lab
Chapter 3: Extractivist logic in the practice of physics
11.11.2020
38:33
militaristic and colonial physics history; analysis of extractivist logic in experimentalist literature today
Chapter 2: Framework: Extractivism, land, and disorigining
11.11.2020
37:57
land as read from Watts, Kimmerer, and the Dish with One Spoon; the politico-economic hegemony known as extractivism; how we take things from being in specific emplaced relational context to being extracted through disorigining
Chapter 1: Introduction
11.11.2020
24:05
how i came to view physics as needing to change; my intent and audience; the research questions; a summary of the rest of the thesis
Front Matter
11.11.2020
7:27
abstract; acknowledging teachers, friends, and land

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