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Alexander Dunlap and Jostein Jakobsen

The Violent Technologies of Extraction

Political ecology, critical agrarian studies and the capitalist worldeater

Alexander Dunlap

Centre for Development & the Environment, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Jostein Jakobsen

Centre for Development & the Environment, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

ISBN 978-3-030-26851-0 e-ISBN 978-3-030-26852-7

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26852-7

The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

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We dedicate this book to thosehuman and non-humancoming to daggers with the Worldeater, seeking to dismantle its rule for a social and ecologically harmonious future.

Acknowledgments

This book would not have been possible without the tireless efforts of the people close to us. Jostein would like to thank Ingfrid Knudegaard, Embla and Jo for allowing him to work on this project despite everythingthank you. We remain indebted to the thoughtful feedback from our three anonymous reviewers who offered us support, critical feedback and detailed scrutiny of our manuscript. This review work offered helpful guidance to complete this bookand the provocative ideas it contains. This also includes comments and suggestions on sections of this manuscript from Mariel Aguilar-Sten and Jaume Franquesa, who offered encouragement and the refinement of ideas. Finally, the Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM) at the University of Oslo with encouragement and moral support from Sidsel Roalkvam as well as Poul Wisborg, Kristoffer Ring, Benedict Bull, Kristian Bjrkdahl, Gudrun Cecilie Eikemo Helland, Anne-Line Sandker and many others.

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A. Dunlap, J. Jakobsen The Violent Technologies of Extraction https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26852-7_1

1. Introduction: Consuming EverythingCapitalism and the Imperative of Total Extractivism

Alexander Dunlap

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Centre for Development & the Environment, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Alexander Dunlap (Corresponding author)

Jostein Jakobsen

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Certain human realities become clearer at the periphery of the capitalist system, making it easier for us to brush aside the commoditized apprehension of reality.

Michael Taussig

The beast knows itself to be a machine, and it knows that machines break down, decompose, and may even destroy themselves. A frantic search for perpetual motion machines yield no assurances to counter the suspicions, and the beast has no choice but to project itself into realms of beings which are not machines.

Fredy Perlman

Abstract

The earth and its inhabitants are on a trajectory of cascading socio-ecological crisis driven by techno-capitalist development. Presenting the aim and scope of this book, the introduction lays out the key conceptual issue of total extractivism, naming the spirit and amalgamation of violent technologies comprising the totalizing imperative and tension at the heart of the present catastrophic trajectory. Total extractivism denotes how the techno-capitalist world system harbors a rapacious appetite for all lifetotal consumption of human and non-human resourcesthat destructively reconfigures the earth. Drawing on hostile, dissident authors and their companionshumans who have resisted techno-capitalismthe introduction sets the scene for viewing the Leviathanic capitalist state system and its expanding grid of extractive infrastructures as the Worldeater(s).

Keywords

Capitalism Extractivism Crisis Extraction Violence

Forests are replaced by plantations , estuaries with asphalt and water with synthetics liquidschemical solvents or industrial wastesthat have technical names such as methylene chloride or arsenic. The rate of poisoning of the earth and its inhabitants is astounding, a rate corresponding to the progressive erosion and tokenizing of land-based practices and knowledges . Shocking, on the other hand, is the amount of scientific knowledge , measurement and debate of this destruction while it proceeds unabated and is normalized into ecosystems , daily life and the organisms of humans and non-humans. The question emerges: Why? How can the destruction of so much beauty and life continue? Drinkable water is turned into sewage and chemical run off; life is confined by concrete, steel and particle board; and interactions with nature are turned into a hobby to be sold as an identity. This book tries to make sense of this trajectory of progress as it is perversely calledand its continuation through the spirit of the Worldeater.

This book is a provocation. It is even a cry for help to consider the accumulative implications of the present socio-ecological trajectory and its ramifications on humans and non-humans in the age of anthropogenic climate change , species extinction and overall cascading ecological crises. To be more precise, according to the United Nations (UNSDG : 4) to assess that [n]ature across most of the globe has now been significantly altered by multiple human drivers, with the majority of indicators of ecosystems and biodiversity showing rapid decline. Progress , as it is popularly conceived, is radically discredited by these catastrophes. In short, Polanyis (industrial)

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