Extraction and Land in Physics

emma mckay
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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

Episodes

  1. 11/11/2020

    Afterword

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

    1 min

  2. 11/11/2020

    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

    44 min

  3. 11/11/2020

    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

    55 min

  4. 11/11/2020

    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

    49 min

  5. 11/11/2020

    Chapter 3: Extractivist logic in the practice of physics

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

    39 min

  6. 11/11/2020

    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

    38 min

  7. 11/11/2020

    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

    24 min

  8. 11/11/2020

    Front Matter

    abstract; acknowledging teachers, friends, and land

    7 min
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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

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