Chapter 1: Introduction

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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

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

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

militaristic and colonial physics history; analysis of extractivist logic in experimentalist literature today

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

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

abstract; acknowledging teachers, friends, and land