Extraction and Land in Physics

About Extraction and Land in Physics

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

Publisher

emma mckay

Category

science

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

11 Nov 2020

Latest episode

11 Nov 2020

Latest episodes

8 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   11 Nov 2020

   Afterword

   if you'd like to talk, get in touch!

2. 

   11 Nov 2020

   Chapter 6: Moving toward a landed physics

   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

3. 

   11 Nov 2020

   Chapter 5: Physics phenomena are land, too

   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

4. 

   11 Nov 2020

   Chapter 4: The connections are deep: A land story of indium

   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

5. 

   11 Nov 2020

   Chapter 3: Extractivist logic in the practice of physics

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

6. 

   11 Nov 2020

   Chapter 2: Framework: Extractivism, land, and disorigining

   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

7. 

   11 Nov 2020

   Chapter 1: Introduction

   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

8. 

   11 Nov 2020

   Front Matter

   abstract; acknowledging teachers, friends, and land