Following the introduction by the group, New Extractivism of the 21st Century: 10 Urgent Theses by Eduardo Gudynas, neo-extractivism as defined by Gudynas is different from extractivism because “the state is […]

#Neoextractivism as a response to #disastercapitalism? An Inquiry.

In the article by Dr. Christoper A. Loperena (CUNY Graduate Center) entitled “Honduras is open for business: extractivist tourism as […]

A few months ago, you could barely find a street musician in Kentron (downtown) Yerevan. Only two old patriots in the North Avenue held their corner playing Accordion and singing nationalist pieces and folk songs […]

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I lost a part of myself this semester working through these ideas with my partner Zaca, but I wanted to share a methodology that we came up with and extend it to how I am looking at my project. […]

An understanding of pattern, affect- five senses in process, disrupted by what Lefebvre understood to be the simulacra- the present. This exercise as brilliantly described by J.Stein as a methodology can be used […]

Following this exercise- I decided to play with documents against archive that may have not inherently matched together. I leaned on Saidiya Hartman’s critical fabulation, Tina Campt’s listening to the images, […]

By John Zayac

This past spring I was teaching a class that was based in the practice of geology. The course was designed to introduce students to fundamental concepts and then move into the practical – with […]