Extractive Media Conference
As extractivism has intensified, some see it as defining the current stage of capitalism. Driven by massive autonomous extraction machines, disseminated through algorithmically organized logistical systems, extraction both depends on media systems and provides the minerals that make digital machines possible. This conference will examine the interaction of extraction, capitalism, and media.
Convened by Zeynep Çelik Alexander, Brian Larkin, and Debashree Mukherjee.
December 13, 5pm, 807 Schermerhorn
Keynote by Martín Aboleda, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago de Chile: “International Technological Subordination: The Geopolitical Economy of Circuits of Extraction”
December 14, 10am-5pm, 807 Schermerhorn
Workshop
10am Breakfast
Panel I
Chair: Reinhold Martin (Columbia University)
11:00 Introduction
11:10 Rosalind C. Morris, (Columbia University): “Roads Paved and (Not) Taken: Infrastructures of Extraction and the Extraction of Infrastructure in South Africa”
11:30 Rafico Ruiz (Canadian Center for Architecture): “Ikiaqqijjut (‘travelling through layers’): The Angiqatigingniq Internet Network and the Promise of Extraction in Mary River, Nunavut”
11:50 Reinhold Martin comments, followed by discussion
12:30 Lunch
Stronach Lounge, Schermerhorn 8th Floor
Panel II
Chair: Irina Kalinka (Columbia University)
1:30 Janna Israel (Princeton University Art Museum): “Imagining an Early Modern Empire of Minerals”
1:50 Tamara Kneese (Data & Society): “Death by Algorithm: The Case for AI Abolition”
2:10 Irina Kalinka comments, followed by discussion
2:50 Coffee break
Panel III
Chair: Jennifer Wenzel (Columbia University)
3:30 Nadine Chan (University of Toronto): “Cinematic Alchemy: Extraction, Logistics, and Process in the Colonial Industrial Film”
3:50 Patrick Brodie (University College Dublin): “Environmental Datafication, Resource-Making, and the Frontiers of Green Capitalism”
4:10 Jennifer Wenzel comments, followed by discussion
5:00 Final Remarks
Followed by reception in Stronach Lounge, Schermerhorn 8th Floor
This event is part of Extractive Media. See here to learn more and view all related events. Please email disability@columbia.edu to request disability accommodations. Advance notice is necessary to arrange for some accessibility needs.
RSVP required, please email extractivemedia@columbia.edu. Registered guests not affiliated with Columbia University will receive instructions about how to receive guest passes to access campus.