Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Andrew S. Mathews, and Nils Bubandt, “Patchy Anthropocene: Landscape Structure, Multispecies History, and the Retooling of Anthropology,” Current Anthropology 60, no. S20 (August 2019).
Quoted in Jaedon Mason, “Protest in Response to Death of Stop Cop City Activist Ends with Property Damage, Arrests,” Decaturish, January 22, 2023 →.
Another Aesthetics Is Possible: Arts of Rebellion in the Fourth World War (Duke University Press, 2021), 8.
“Climate Apartheid Is the Coming Police Violence Crisis,” Dissent, August 12, 2020 →.
Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline (Verso, 2021); Huber, Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet (Verso, 2022).
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Protest Camps in International Context: Spaces, Infrastructures and Media of Resistance, ed. Gavin Brown et al. (Bristol University Press, 2018); Yates McKee, Strike Art: Contemporary Art and the Post-Occupy Condition (Verso, 2016), 101.
Braden Harper, “Mvskoke Protesters Deliver Eviction Notice to Stop “Cop City” on Georgia Homelands,” Mvskoke Media, March 21, 2023 →.
“‘Don’t Arrest Me, Arrest the Police’: Policing as the Street Administration of Colonial Racial Capitalist Orders,” in Colonial Racial Capitalism, ed. Susan Koshy et al. (Duke University Press, 2022).
Gerald Horne, “Abolition Democracy,” The Nation, May 3, 2022 →; Gilmore, Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (University of California Press, 2007).
Nik Heynen and Megan Ybarra, “On Abolition Ecologies and Making ‘Freedom as a Place,’” Antipode (August 20, 2020). I am also drawing on my work mobilizing “abolition ecology” with DSA Santa Cruz’s Ecosocialist Working Group →.
Natasha Lennard, “Police Shot Atlanta Cop City Protester 57 Times, Autopsy Finds,” The Intercept, April 20, 2023 →.
Tia Brown, “Meet the Major Corporations and Cultural Institutions Helping Build Cop City in Atlanta,” Eyes on the Ties / LittleSis, November 15, 2022 →.
Petitioners submitted signatures on September 11, 2023, but the City of Atlanta has consistently refused to verify them, owing to spurious legal reasoning. This leaves the democratic challenge in a state of suspension at the time of this writing, February 10, 2024.
Stuart Schrader, Badges without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing (University of California Press, 2019).
How to Blow Up a Pipeline, 110.
Disagreement: Politics and Philosophy, trans. Julie Rose (University of Minnesota Press, 2004), 29.
“How the Black Misleadership Class Provides Cover to Cop City,” Hammer & Hope, no. 2 (Summer 2023) →.
The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability (Duke University Press, 2017), 148.
“Racial Fascism,” Boston Review, October 28, 2020 →.
Private Equity Stakeholder Project, PE Profits from Destroying the Atlanta Forest: Uncovering private equity connections to Cop City and Blackhall Studios, 2023.
The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World (Verso, 2023).
“Abolish the GILEE program and Stop Cop City,” Mondoweiss, June 4, 2023 →.
Noah Tsika, “Beyond ‘Copaganda’: Hollywood’s Offscreen Relationship with the Police,” Oxford University Press Blog, January 11, 2022 →.
“Non-Fascist AI,” in Propositions for Non-Fascist Living: Tentative and Urgent, ed. Maria Hlavajova and Wietske Maas (MIT Press, 2019), 116.
George Chidi, “Georgia Senate Passes Bill Curtailing Charitable Bail Funds for Protest Groups,” The Guardian, February 2, 2024 →.
For more on this conflict, through the lens of Atlanta policing and opposition to it in the context of high-tech urbanism, see Stephanie Wakefield and Glenn Dyer, “‘Stop the Metaverse, Save the Real World,’” e-flux Architecture, September 2022 →.
Riofrancos, “Where Should the Climate Movement Go Next?” The Nation, July 25, 2022 →.
This was the framing conceptualization of “Imagine Earth,” a conference at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark, organized by Jacob Lund, Michael Kjær, and Mathias Ussing Seeberg, in which I took part, June 8–9, 2023.
This compelling argument—that we must “abolish the conditions” (of economic inequality, neoliberal privatization, and the destruction of social services) that produce the criminality used to justify policing in turn—is that of Cedric Johnson, After Black Lives Matter: Policing and Anti-Capitalist Struggle (Verso, 2023).
Risk Work: Making Art and Guerrilla Tactics in Punitive America, 1967–1987 (University of Chicago Press, 2023).
I’m building on several sources here, including Ariella Azoulay’s “imagining” strikes in Potential History; Puar’s “prehensive futurity”; and Gramsci’s “possible art,” cited and discussed in Ponce de León, Another Aesthetics is Possible, 6.
Pamela M. Lee, “Open Secret: The Work of Art Between Disclosure and Redaction,” Artforum 49, no. 9 (May 2011); see also Eyal Weizman, “Open Verification,” e-flux Architecture, June 2019 →.
For more on the ongoing initiatives of the Stop Cop City movement, see the abolitionist nonprofit Atlanta Community Press Collective →, and the organization Stop Cop City Solidarity →. See also the Weelaunee Solidarity Collective, “The 2024 Zapatista Encuentro: A Report-back with Footage of a Play about the Movement to Stop Cop City,” crimethinc.com, January 18, 2024 →; Weelaunee Defense Society, “How to Host a Haunted House: A Guide for Anarchists with a Video Walkthrough,” crimethinc.com, January 19, 2024 →; and the Defend the Atlanta Forest media kit →.
See the cross-racial solidarity statement quoted in “Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens Flees from Msvkoke Ceremonial Leaders Trying to Deliver Eviction Notice, Call for End to Cop City Project on Msvkoke Land,” news release, ICT, March 9, 2023 →. See also the open letter signed by sixteen environmental groups, as cited in Charles Bethea, “The New Fight Over and Old Forest in Atlanta,” New Yorker, August 3, 2022 →.