Coloniality of Infrastructure - Achille Mbembe - The Earthly Community

The Earthly Community

Achille Mbembe

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The Akosombo Dam, which contains Lake Volta, the largest artificial reservoir in the world based on surface area, built under Kwame Nkrumah by the Italian consortium Impregilo from 1961–1965. Photo: René Mayorga/Flickr.

Coloniality of Infrastructure
October 2021










Notes
1

Judith Butler, Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence (New York: Verso, 2004.)

2

See The Occult Life of Things: Native Amazonian Theories of Materiality and Personhood, ed. Fernando Santos-Granero (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2009).

Translated by Gila Walker.

This text is an excerpt from the forthcoming La communaute terrestre (Paris: La Decouverte, 2021).