
Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait

The very same qualities that have made the “domestic fishes” famous in China have made them infamous in the United States. A well-fed grass carp can weigh more than eighty pounds. In a single day it can eat almost half of its body weight, and it lays hundreds of thousands of eggs at a time. Bigheads can, on occasion, weigh as much as a hundred poun
... See moreElizabeth Kolbert • Under a White Sky

Most analysts of capitalism, following nineteenth- and twentieth-century leads, have ignored the formation of “raw” materials, taking them for granted as capitalist resources. Yet these materials have their own genealogies of production outside the capitalist purview, and our recent awareness that capitalism is destroying Earth’s livability makes i... See more
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing • Salvage Accumulation, or the Structural Effects of Capitalist…
Transforming swaths of land into laboratories where laws and regulations are subordinate to accumulation is generative, “reconfiguring relationships between governing and the governed, power and knowledge, and sovereignty and territoriality.”