Issue #129 The Wasted Earth: Excess, Superabundance, and Sludge

The Wasted Earth: Excess, Superabundance, and Sludge

Elizabeth A. Povinelli

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Issue #129
September 2022










Notes
1

Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Between Gaia and Ground: Four Axioms of Existence and the Ancestral Catastrophe of Late Liberalism (Duke University Press, 2021).

2

Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Economies of Abandonment (Duke University Press, 2011).

3

George Bataille, The Accursed Share: An Essay of General Economy, vol. 1 (Princeton University Press, 1991). See also Allan Stoekl’s unpacking of Bataille’s philosophy of energy and consumption relative to concepts of sustainability: Bataille’s Peak: Energy, Religion, and Postsustainability (University of Minnesota Press, 2007).

4

Gayatri Spivak, “Scattered Speculations on the Question of Value,” in In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics (Routledge, 2006), 216.

5

Michelle Murphy, Landscapes of Exposure: Knowledge and Exposure in Modern Environments (University of Chicago Press, 2004).

6

See .

7

Tess Lea, Darwin (NewSouth, 2014).

8

“Our North, Our Future,” 4.

9

Liam Grealy and Kirsty Howie, “Securing Supply: Governing Drinking Water in the Northern Territory,” Australian Geographer 51, no. 3 (2020).

10

Filipa César, “Meteorisations: Reading Amílcar Cabral’s Agronomy of Liberation,” Third Text 32, no. 2–3 (2018).

11

Katerina Martina Teaiwa, Consuming Ocean Island: Stories of People and Phosphate from Banaba (Indiana University Press, 2014); Renee Cho, “Phosphorus: Essential to Life—Are We Running Out?” State of the Planet, Columbia Climate School, April 1, 2013 .







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