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IHC<p>🗣 We've opened the call for papers for this year's edition of our Joint International Workshop with the University of Bologna, under the subject "Infrastructures of Rent Extraction".</p><p>ℹ️ <a href="https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/global-infrastructures-2025/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/glob</span><span class="invisible">al-infrastructures-2025/</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>histodon</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/TechnoCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechnoCapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Technology</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/GlobalInfraestructures" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalInfraestructures</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Infraestructures" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Infraestructures</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Extractivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Extractivism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/GlobalEconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalEconomy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/TransnationalCorporations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TransnationalCorporations</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/LabourHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LabourHistory</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/RentierCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RentierCapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/TechnoFeudalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechnoFeudalism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/RentExtraction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RentExtraction</span></a></p>
Supergeante<p>Mine de lithium de Manono&nbsp;: la firme de Bill Gates et Jeff Bezos se précipite au Congo – Libération<br><a href="https://www.liberation.fr/international/afrique/mine-de-lithium-de-manono-la-firme-de-bill-gates-et-jeff-bezos-se-precipite-au-congo-20250728_K75CH7F2INGBVABLFGKZBNMEJ4/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">liberation.fr/international/af</span><span class="invisible">rique/mine-de-lithium-de-manono-la-firme-de-bill-gates-et-jeff-bezos-se-precipite-au-congo-20250728_K75CH7F2INGBVABLFGKZBNMEJ4/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/congo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>congo</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/platformcapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>platformcapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/extractivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>extractivism</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://pastebin.com/mRU6wgYy" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">pastebin.com/mRU6wgYy</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
BellingenNSW<p>“We have whole industries with business models built on the destruction of the natural world.” Dr Ken Henry</p><p>"Human treatment of the environment represents possibly the dumbest choice we have collectively made – and consistently been making for decades."<br>&gt;&gt;<br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/17/protecting-the-environment-has-always-made-economic-sense-now-we-have-proof" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2025/jul/17/protecting-the-environment-has-always-made-economic-sense-now-we-have-proof</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>biodiversity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/EPBCAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EPBCAct</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/ClimateBreakdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateBreakdown</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/extractivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>extractivism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/industry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>industry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>destruction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/mindsets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mindsets</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>environment</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/IntergenerationalBastardry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IntergenerationalBastardry</span></a></p>
Mark Burton<p>The contradictions between vivir bien / Pachamamismo and extractivism / desarrollismo deepen in Bolivia over lithium.</p><p>Litio: Bolivia puede perder inversión millonaria y 6.000 empleos – NODAL<br><a href="https://www.nodal.am/2025/07/litio-bolivia-puede-perder-inversion-millonaria-y-6-000-empleos/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nodal.am/2025/07/litio-bolivia</span><span class="invisible">-puede-perder-inversion-millonaria-y-6-000-empleos/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/extractivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>extractivism</span></a></p>
BellingenNSW<p>Australian wealth inequality frays the social fabric </p><p>"The top 10% of households now control 44% of all wealth in Australia. The collective wealth of the richest 200 Australians has nearly tripled over two decades, mostly from property and resources – economic activities that extract value from existing assets rather than new productive capacities; what economists call “rent-seeking”.</p><p>"Rent-seeking concentrates wealth away from productivity-enhancing investments – in business innovation, public infrastructure and worker wages. This leaves ordinary people paying ever-higher proportions of their income for necessities. Ordinary Australians have little to celebrate." <br>&gt;&gt;<br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/15/neoliberalism-lite-is-no-solution-to-australias-cost-of-living-and-productivity-crises-its-time-to-curb-wealth-concentration" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2025/jul/15/neoliberalism-lite-is-no-solution-to-australias-cost-of-living-and-productivity-crises-its-time-to-curb-wealth-concentration</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/inequality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>inequality</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/WealthCapture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WealthCapture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/RentSeeking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RentSeeking</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/housing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>housing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/rentierism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rentierism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/unproductivity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>unproductivity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/ActiveProduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ActiveProduction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/wages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wages</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/extractivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>extractivism</span></a></p>
cacu<p>🌍 Cartography of generative AI</p><p><a href="https://cartography-of-generative-ai.net/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cartography-of-generative-ai.n</span><span class="invisible">et/</span></a></p><p>The popularisation of artificial intelligence (AI) has given rise to imaginaries that invite alienation and mystification. At a time when these technologies seem to be consolidating, it is pertinent to map their connections with human activities and more than human territories. What set of extractions, agencies and resources allow us to converse online with a text-generating tool or to obtain images in a matter of seconds?</p><p><a href="https://todon.nl/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/extractivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>extractivism</span></a> <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/generativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>generativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>illustration</span></a> <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/TechnoOptimism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechnoOptimism</span></a></p>
BellingenNSW<p>"Wherever land isn’t protected, there are miners, drug traffickers, loggers, illegal fishers and hunters."<br>&gt;&gt;<br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jul/05/we-dont-want-contact-because-you-are-bad-loggers-close-in-on-uncontacted-people-in-peruvian-amazon" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/global-develop</span><span class="invisible">ment/2025/jul/05/we-dont-want-contact-because-you-are-bad-loggers-close-in-on-uncontacted-people-in-peruvian-amazon</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/extractivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>extractivism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/LoggingImpacts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LoggingImpacts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/roads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>roads</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/IndigenousPeoples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousPeoples</span></a></p>
BellingenNSW<p>Forests, roads and mega fires<br>"More roads are associated with more fires"</p><p>"A problem arises when forest managers look at forests exclusively “through the lens of timber and dollar signs on trees."<br>&gt;&gt;<br><a href="https://grist.org/wildfires/wildfire-prevention-roads-trump-repeal-roadless-rule-usda-forest-service/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">grist.org/wildfires/wildfire-p</span><span class="invisible">revention-roads-trump-repeal-roadless-rule-usda-forest-service/</span></a></p><p>Char Miller, "Burn Scars: A Documentary History of Fire Suppression, from Colonial Origins to the Resurgence of Cultural Burning" (Oregon State UP, 2024) <br>&gt;&gt;<br><a href="https://osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/burn-scars" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/</span><span class="invisible">burn-scars</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/LoggingImpacts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LoggingImpacts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/LoggingIndustry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LoggingIndustry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/NSWLogging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NSWLogging</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/roads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>roads</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/bushfires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bushfires</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/timber" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>timber</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/extractivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>extractivism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/thinning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>thinning</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/PrescribedBurns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PrescribedBurns</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/FireSuppression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FireSuppression</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/megafires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>megafires</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>colonialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/CounterNarratives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CounterNarratives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/IndigenousPeoples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousPeoples</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/CulturalBurning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalBurning</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/ecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecology</span></a></p>
Thomas Barrio<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@davevolek" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>davevolek</span></a></span> We should never forget that the modern <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/comfortism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>comfortism</span></a> of the (Western) centers would never be possible without the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/colonialRelationships" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>colonialRelationships</span></a> that the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/centers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>centers</span></a> maintain with the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/peripheries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>peripheries</span></a>, nor without <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/extractivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>extractivism</span></a>. All of this will one day or another have to be called into <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/question" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>question</span></a>. The least we could do "while waiting" for this or these days is to thoroughly rethink our <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a>, or as I call it in reference to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Serres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Serres</span></a> (the end of the city), our <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cosmolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cosmolitics</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/06/18/glossaire-critique-nouveaux-concepts-pour-penser-lere-du-megamachinocene/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">homohortus31.wordpress.com/202</span><span class="invisible">5/06/18/glossaire-critique-nouveaux-concepts-pour-penser-lere-du-megamachinocene/</span></a></p>
BellingenNSW<p>NSW "cowboys continue to knock down huge swathes of healthy forests."</p><p>"ACF says satellite evidence shows mass native habitat destruction by farmers."<br>&gt;&gt; <br><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2025-06-21/acf-citizen-scientists-satellite-images-of-land-clearing/105436794" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">abc.net.au/news/rural/2025-06-</span><span class="invisible">21/acf-citizen-scientists-satellite-images-of-land-clearing/105436794</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>biodiversity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/LandClearing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LandClearing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/ThreatenedSpecies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThreatenedSpecies</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/beef" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>beef</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/meat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>meat</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/cattle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cattle</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/extractivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>extractivism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/EPBCAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EPBCAct</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/CitizenScientist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CitizenScientist</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/degradation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>degradation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/NSW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NSW</span></a></p>
Bruce Broomhall<p>Extractivist elites have mobilized the governments of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a>, both federal and provincial, to adopt legislation and policy in favour of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mining</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FossilFuel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFuel</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/forestry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>forestry</span></a> interests - in the name of nation-building and 'standing up' to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>. </p><p>Believe it at your peril. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FirstNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstNations</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Climate</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>environmental</span></a> activists are not duped.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/18/canada-trump-flood-zone" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2025/jun/18/canada-trump-flood-zone</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Extractivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Extractivism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NaturalResources" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NaturalResources</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Neoliberalism</span></a></p>
BellingenNSW<p>Fixing outdated environmental laws (the EPBC Act)<br>Destruction as usual ?</p><p>“Australians are tired of the bush being bulldozed and burnt and elected a government that will act on nature and on climate." They expect "sweeping changes to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (EPBC) in the next 18 months."</p><p>"The past failures, combined with the approval of major fossil fuel projects and the rushed passage of laws to protect Tasmania’s salmon industry, have environmentalists worried about Labor’s second term."</p><p>"Environmental organisations also want an end to the “climate blindness” of Australia’s environmental laws, an end to loopholes such as the effective exemption granted to logging under regional forest agreements, and a clearer focus on what’s needed for the recovery of threatened species."</p><p>"Corporate Australia needed to “leave its bludgeons at the door” as the process started afresh."</p><p>"Ending habitat loss was the “bottom line outcome”, ...meaning that native forest logging and agricultural land clearing must be addressed in some form."<br>&gt;&gt;<br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jun/14/environmentalists-worry-as-labor-seeks-consensus-on-federal-nature-laws-epbc-act-epa" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/australia-news</span><span class="invisible">/2025/jun/14/environmentalists-worry-as-labor-seeks-consensus-on-federal-nature-laws-epbc-act-epa</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/EPBCAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EPBCAct</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/BiodiversityCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BiodiversityCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>biodiversity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/ClimateBreakdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateBreakdown</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/GHG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GHG</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/FastTrackApprovals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FastTrackApprovals</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/extractivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>extractivism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>destruction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/SamuelReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SamuelReview</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/LoggingIndustry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LoggingIndustry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/landclearing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>landclearing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFuels</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/CorporateAustralia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateAustralia</span></a></p>
NSW.Biodiversity<p>Mining the ocean for fish n chips <br>"Humans have done "unspeakably awful" damage to the planet's oceans."<br><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-08/david-attenborough-prince-william-oceans-/105390896" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">abc.net.au/news/2025-06-08/dav</span><span class="invisible">id-attenborough-prince-william-oceans-/105390896</span></a><br><a href="https://theblower.au/tags/ocean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ocean</span></a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/Biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Biodiversity</span></a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/harm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>harm</span></a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/fishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fishing</span></a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/FishnChips" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FishnChips</span></a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/extractivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>extractivism</span></a></p>
BellingenNSW<p>Australia is a global deforestation hotspot, <br>ranked second in the world for biodiversity loss due to forest and bushland destruction<br> &gt;&gt;<br><a href="https://www.greenpeace.org.au/our-work/forests/australian-deforestation/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">greenpeace.org.au/our-work/for</span><span class="invisible">ests/australian-deforestation/</span></a></p><p>"Deforestation in Colombia fell 33% <br>year-on-year in the first quarter of 2025 to 27,052 hectares due to agreements with communities and a greater presence of the state and the Armed Forces, the environment ministry said" <br>&gt;&gt;<br><a href="https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/deforestation-colombia-falls-33-first-quarter-2025-06-05/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">reuters.com/sustainability/cli</span><span class="invisible">mate-energy/deforestation-colombia-falls-33-first-quarter-2025-06-05/</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/deforestation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deforestation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>destruction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/LoggingIndustry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LoggingIndustry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>biodiversity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/NSW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NSW</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Australia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/extractivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>extractivism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/governance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>governance</span></a></p>
Radical Anthropology<p>On a tour of the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Africa</span></a> Museum outside <a href="https://c.im/tags/Brussels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Brussels</span></a> -- one of the sites which administered the ultimate <a href="https://c.im/tags/colonial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>colonial</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/extractivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>extractivism</span></a> and resonant today:</p><p>'Tshibwabwa’s masks and body costumes, assembled as ‘The Hidden Face of Coltan’, are a parody of early modern plate armour. Their martial character reminds us that the coltan in our phones is a blood mineral, which fuels the wars in the eastern DRC. As visitors reach for their phones to post photos of Tonga, the mask looks back sceptically.'<br>.<br>.<br>'Tervuren was conceived as a showcase for the splendours of Leopold’s vast annex in Africa, but by the 1900s an international movement for ‘Congo reform’ was spreading word of European atrocities, especially those committed against the families of rubber tappers who fell short of their quotas.'<br>.<br>.</p><p>'But Congolese researchers who would like to explore the archives for themselves … are held back from entry to the EU by stringent visa regimes. Digitisation … remains a slow project. How can a museum be decolonised if the descendants of colonised Congolese can’t gain access to its archives?’</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Congo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Congo</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n10/jeremy-harding/paths-to-restitution" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n10/je</span><span class="invisible">remy-harding/paths-to-restitution</span></a></p>
Peter Riley<p>Then: Plundering and polluting for profit on stolen land regardless of the human, social and environmental consequences.<br>Nowadays: BloodyHugeProfits, FMG, Gina Mineheart, RioStinko, Woodside </p><p><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-01/ghost-towns-were-once-gold-mining-farming-railway-hubs/105354022" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">abc.net.au/news/2025-06-01/gho</span><span class="invisible">st-towns-were-once-gold-mining-farming-railway-hubs/105354022</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Colonialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Extractivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Extractivism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FirstNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstNations</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GhostTowns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GhostTowns</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GoldFever" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GoldFever</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LandBack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LandBack</span></a></p>
NSW.Biodiversity<p>North West Shelf gas extension will deliver ‘almost nothing’ to Australia’s public purse</p><p>"Experts say hugely profitable east coast LNG producers pay little in resources rent tax and Woodside project won’t help country’s energy shift." &gt;&gt;<br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jun/01/north-west-shelf-gas-extension-australia-lng-woodside-project-little-rent-tax" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/australia-news</span><span class="invisible">/2025/jun/01/north-west-shelf-gas-extension-australia-lng-woodside-project-little-rent-tax</span></a><br><a href="https://theblower.au/tags/fossilfuel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fossilfuel</span></a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/LNG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LNG</span></a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/extractivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>extractivism</span></a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Australia</span></a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>energy</span></a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/transition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>transition</span></a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/climateemergency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climateemergency</span></a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/petroglyphs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>petroglyphs</span></a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/IndigenousHeritage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousHeritage</span></a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>destruction</span></a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/BigQuarry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigQuarry</span></a></p>
Thomas Barrio<p>From Productivist Work to the Megamachine: Alienation, Instrumental Rationality, and Systemic&nbsp;Domination</p><p>💼⚙️ From the Taylorist factory to the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Plantationocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Plantationocene</span></a>: how has <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/InstrumentalRationality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InstrumentalRationality</span></a> transformed <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/work" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>work</span></a>, bodies, and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>society</span></a>? <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Alienation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Alienation</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/speed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>speed</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/control" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>control</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/extractivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>extractivism</span></a>, and self-destruction—critical insights with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fromm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fromm</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Jappe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jappe</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Virilio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Virilio</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Foucault" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Foucault</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Weber" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Weber</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Adorno" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Adorno</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ferdinand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ferdinand</span></a>, and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Merchant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Merchant</span></a>. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sociology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sociology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecology</span></a> From Productivist Work to the…</p><p><a href="https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/05/31/du-travail-productiviste-a-la-megamachine-alienation-rationalite-instrumentale-et-domination-systemique/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">homohortus31.wordpress.com/202</span><span class="invisible">5/05/31/du-travail-productiviste-a-la-megamachine-alienation-rationalite-instrumentale-et-domination-systemique/</span></a></p>
Radical Anthropology<p>Another ongoing genocide in <a href="https://c.im/tags/WestPapua" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WestPapua</span></a></p><p>Ryan Jessurun says: impressive documentary about the postcolonial history of West Papua in the cinemas soon. The rarely shown and beautifully coloured archive material alone is worth it.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/anthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>anthropology</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>colonialism</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Extractivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Extractivism</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Papua" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Papua</span></a><br><a href="https://www.oneworld.nl/identiteit/the-promise-legt-nederlandse-kolonisatie-van-west-papoea-bloot/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">oneworld.nl/identiteit/the-pro</span><span class="invisible">mise-legt-nederlandse-kolonisatie-van-west-papoea-bloot/</span></a></p>
NSW.Biodiversity<p>NZ/ Aotearoa :100% pure and clean, green</p><p>New Zealand's unique <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>biodiversity</span></a> is at risk as the government plans to boost mineral exports to $3bn by 2035<br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/27/fast-track-to-where-the-new-law-opening-up-new-zealand-to-a-mining-boom" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/world/2025/may</span><span class="invisible">/27/fast-track-to-where-the-new-law-opening-up-new-zealand-to-a-mining-boom</span></a><br><a href="https://theblower.au/tags/newzealand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>newzealand</span></a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/Aotearoa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Aotearoa</span></a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>biodiversity</span></a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/conservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>conservation</span></a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wildlife</span></a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mining</span></a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/extractivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>extractivism</span></a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFuels</span></a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/laws" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>laws</span></a></p>