Center for the Study of Social Difference
Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy
Society of Fellows/Heyman Center for the Humanities
Department of Anthropology
As extractivism has intensified, some see it as defining the current stage of capitalism. Driven by massive autonomous extraction machines, disseminated through algorithmically organized logistical systems, extraction both depends on media systems and provides the minerals that make digital machines possible. This conference will examine the interaction of extraction, capitalism, and media.
RSVP required, please email extractivemedia@columbia.edu. Registered guests not affiliated with Columbia University will receive instructions about how to receive guest passes to access campus.
Convened by Zeynep Çelik Alexander, Brian Larkin, and Debashree Mukherjee. This event is part of Extractive Media. See here to learn more and view all related events.
December 13, 5pm, 807 Schermerhorn
Keynote by Martín Aboleda, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago de Chile: "International Technological Subordination: The Geopolitical Economy of Circuits of Extraction"
December 14, 10am-5pm, 807 Schermerhorn
Patrick Brodie, University College Dublin: "Environmental Datafication, Resource-Making, and the Frontiers of Green Capitalism"
Nadine Chan, University of Toronto: "Cinematic Alchemy: Extraction, Logistics, and Process in the Colonial Industrial Film"
Janna Israel, Princeton University: "Imagining an Early Modern Empire of Minerals"
Tamara Kneese, Data & Society Research Institute: "Death by Algorithm: The Case for Al Abolition"
Rosalind Morris, Columbia University: "Roads Paved and (Not) Taken: Infrastructures of Extraction and the Extraction of Infrastructure in South Africa"
Rafico Ruiz, Canadian Centre for Architecture: "lkiaqqijjut ('travelling through layers'): The Angiqatigingniq Internet Network and the Promise of Extraction in Mary River, Nunavut"