We Are Tectonic!

Out now @ Lagoonscapes Journal:
We Are Tectonic! A Queer Geophysics for Intra-Solidarities and Resisting the Cloud Regime

Img: The Underground Division / TITiPI

 

[abstract]

This paper analyses how Big Tech and global consultancy firms are asserting control over carbon removal certification and governance through infrastructure solutions and technical standards. We argue that defining gaps in the underground constitutes a global takeover of material sovereignty, encompassing both knowledge and geological formations. We unearth Big Tech’s strategies of infra-solutionism to demonstrate, drawing on the work of inhuman geographer Kathryn Yusoff, how this takeover reinforces geological grammars and essentialises racialised and sexualised categories that disconnect us from the Earth. Drawing on queer poetry together with work of Marxist agronomist Amílcal Cabral we advocate for resistance to dominant geopower and form transnational solidarities against the cloud regime.

Full article: https://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/media/pdf/article/the-venice-journal-of-environmental-humanities/2025/1/art-10.30687-LGSP-2785-2709-2025-01-008.pdf
 

Cascading animation: https://ddivision.xyz/rockrepo/crystals

Open access to full number, Cracking the Surface at Lagoonscapes Journal:  https://edizionicafoscari.it//it/edizioni/riviste/the-venice-journal-of-environmental-humanities/2025/1/

 

 

[paper] dis-orientation and its aftermath

[EN]

Following Sara Ahmed’s invitation “to think how queer politics might involve disorientation, without legislating disorientation as a politics”, the collective enquiry Possible Bodies research team inventoried three items related to 3D artifacts, following through the implications of the contemporary renderings of “dis-orientation” they invoke. Each in their own way, the items relate to a world that is becoming oblique, where inside and outside, up and down are switching places and where new perspectives become available. They speak of the mutual constitution of technology and bodies, of matter and semiotics, of nature and culture and how orientation and the subjectivities that emerge from it are managed across the technocolonial matrix of representation in turbo-capitalism. The three items allow for a look at tools that represent, track and model “bodies” through diverse cultural means of abstraction, and eventually convoke their aftermath in a call for “disobedient action-research”.

Keywords:
3D, technology, possible bodies, disorientation, inventory

[CAST]

Continuando la invitación de Sara Ahmed a “pensar cómo las políticas queer podrían implicar desorientación, sin legislar la desorientación como una política”, el equipo de la investigación colectiva Possible Bodies inventarió tres ítems relacionados con artefactos 3D, dando seguimiento a las implicaciones que las actualizaciones contemporáneas de “des-orientación” puedan invocar. Cada uno a su modo, los items están en relación con un mundo que está deviniendo oblicuo, donde dentro y fuera o arriba y abajo están cambiando posiciones, y donde nuevas perspectivas se hacen disponibles. Hablan de la mutua constitución de cuerpos y tecnologías, materia y semiótica, naturaleza y cultura; y de cómo la orientación y las subjectividades que de ahí emergen están
gestionadas por medio de la matriz de representación tecnocolonial en el turbocapitalismo. Los tres ítems permiten observar herramientas que representan, monitorizan y modelan “cuerpos”a través de diversos medios culturales de abstracción, y eventualmente convocan sus consecuencias en una llamada a la “investigación-acción desobediente”.

Palabras clave:
tecnología, 3D, cuerpos posibles, desorietación, inventario

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https://www.inmaterialdesign.com/index.php/mag/article/download/27/22 

INMATERIAL, Vol.2 Num.3 (2017): https://www.inmaterialdesign.com/index.php/mag/issue/view/4