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The Worldeater(s) in Process: Uncovering the Nexus of Conventional and ‘Green’ Extraction

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This chapter interrogates the subtle shifts and blurring lines between conventional extraction—mineral and hydrocarbon—and ‘green’ extraction—intensive agriculture and renewable energy. Through the careful assembly of extensive amounts of empirics straddling these modalities of extraction, we identify and uncover a crucial nexus. We argue that this nexus is key in animating the present imperative of total extractivism. The nexus further reveals the violent technologies of extraction at work as it lays out further dimensions of the organization of the rapaciously devouring machinery spreading its grid across ever-increasing portions of the earth. The chapter thus traces the infrastructure—the ‘body’ of the Worldeater(s)—through mines, plantations, factory farms and renewable energy to chart the formation and/or spread of the Worldeater.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    See Chap. 3 and Rodgers and O’Neill’s (2012) on Infrastructural Violence.

  2. 2.

    It is thus not coincidental that the ‘game’ of naming our current epoch of techno-capitalist industrial development includes not only the Capitalocene (Moore 2015) but also the ‘Plantationocene’ (Haraway 2015) among others.

  3. 3.

    These numbers do not include sea animals and thus ‘do not illustrate the full scale of death’ (Wadiwel 2015: 6).

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    See Dalby (2015).

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