BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.5.8//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news370@english.philhist.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220506T161017 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220519T180000 SUMMARY:Phosphate Futures: Tracing Elemental Flows From the Western Sahara to the Greenland Ice Sheet DESCRIPTION:We tend to term The Great Acceleration in the language of fossi l fueled globalization. In that story\, climate conflict resolution largel y involves altering the energy sources responsible for the unintended cons equences of modernity. But the hegemony of fossil fuels involves an entire world of materials drawn into our extractive epoch\, and hence too the cu ltural geographies grounding its contestation. This talk pays attention to one that has largely gone unnoticed. The lion’s share of internationall y traded phosphorous comes from a small region of occupied territory in th e Western Sahara. Without this mineral\, industrial agriculture all over t he world would slow to a halt. Unlike the extraction of fossil fuels\, pho sphate production has gone mostly unconsidered in relation to the metrics around which we have come to worry over planetary political ecologies. Sur prising to me is that the unabated availability of phosphorous for interna tional agribusiness depends on the continued suppression of an indigenous socialism vying for sovereignty in what is currently Moroccan territory. B ut also\, that phosphorous is a key trigger for a range of harmful algae b looms across the hydrosphere. I ask: under what conditions does this banal material get dug up from the earth? Is Laâyoune\, Western Sahara\, an An thropocene capital like Greenland and the Great Barrier Reef? And what els e of the present becomes legible if we read the animated landscapes uneart hed by petroculture through the elemental inscription of phosphorous?\\r\\ nJEFF DIAMANTI is Assistant Professor of Environmental Humanities (Cultura l Analysis & Philosophy) at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of Climate and Capital in the Age of Petroleum: Locating Terminal Landscap es (Bloomsbury 2021) and co-editor of Contemporary Marxist Theory: A Reade r (Bloomsbury 2014)\, Materialism and the Critique of Energy (MCM’ Press 2018)\, Energy Culture: Art and Theory on Oil and Beyond (West Virginia U niversity Press 2019)\, and The Bloomsbury Companion to Marx (Bloomsbury 2 018)\, as well as a special issue of Reviews in Cultural Theory on “Ener gy Humanities”. He co-directs the ASCA Political Ecologies Seminar with Joost de Blooois\, and with Amanda Boetzkes\, he co-organizes “At the Mo raine”\, an ongoing research project on the political ecology of glacial retreat in the Arctic. His new research\, Bloom Ecologies\, details the r eturn to natural philosophy in the marine and atmospheric sciences studyin g the interactive dynamics of the cryosphere and hydrosphere in the North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean. X-ALT-DESC:

We tend to term The Great Acceleration in the language of fos sil fueled globalization. In that story\, climate conflict resolution larg ely involves altering the energy sources responsible for the unintended co nsequences of modernity. But the hegemony of fossil fuels involves an enti re world of materials drawn into our extractive epoch\, and hence too the cultural geographies grounding its contestation. This talk pays attention to one that has largely gone unnoticed. The lion’s share of internationa lly traded phosphorous comes from a small region of occupied territory in the Western Sahara. Without this mineral\, industrial agriculture all over the world would slow to a halt. Unlike the extraction of fossil fuels\, p hosphate production has gone mostly unconsidered in relation to the metric s around which we have come to worry over planetary political ecologies. S urprising to me is that the unabated availability of phosphorous for inter national agribusiness depends on the continued suppression of an indigenou s socialism vying for sovereignty in what is currently Moroccan territory. But also\, that phosphorous is a key trigger for a range of harmful algae blooms across the hydrosphere. I ask: under what conditions does this ban al material get dug up from the earth? Is Laâyoune\, Western Sahara\, an Anthropocene capital like Greenland and the Great Barrier Reef? And what e lse of the present becomes legible if we read the animated landscapes unea rthed by petroculture through the elemental inscription of phosphorous?

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JEFF DIAMANTI is Assistant Professor of Environment al Humanities (Cultural Analysis &\; Philosophy) at the University of A msterdam. He is the author of Climate and Capital in the Age of Petrol eum: Locating Terminal Landscapes (Bloomsbury 2021) and co-editor of< em> Contemporary Marxist Theory: A Reader (Bloomsbury 2014)\, Mat erialism and the Critique of Energy (MCM’ Press 2018)\, Energy Culture: Art and Theory on Oil and Beyond (West Virginia University P ress 2019)\, and The Bloomsbury Companion to Marx (Bloomsbury 201 8)\, as well as a special issue of Reviews in Cultural Theory on “Energy Humanities”. He co-directs the ASCA Political Ecologies Semina r with Joost de Blooois\, and with Amanda Boetzkes\, he co-organizes “At the Moraine”\, an ongoing research project on the political ecology of glacial retreat in the Arctic. His new research\, Bloom Ecologies \, details the return to natural philosophy in the marine and atmospheric sciences studying the interactive dynamics of the cryosphere and hydrosphe re in the North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean.

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