In 2020, we’ll be initiating a new cycle of experimental events, as noted previously. The ideas are still in flux; what we can anticipate, however, are meetings at specific urban locations where we will experience, through everyday attunements, past and ongoing politics of explosivity and explosiv-ization (an ongoing human and more-than-human geochemical process).
This connects in part to an old line of investigation we have on suspicious packages, but more broadly explores the industrialization of geophysics in the racialized production of explosive technologies (NB: interesting adjacent conference related to “investigative memorialization” and soil colonization, convened by Dubravka Sekulić and Milica Tomić; would have loved to see this — youtube has archived streams, it seems).
There will be much more to say (and we’re working on various written pieces, one of which will be up online soon). In the meantime, a sampling of study materials we’re working with or will be drawing upon (some of these are available online or request from your local library; please ask us if we can help you locate a copy):
Crystal Mun-hye Baik (2019) Reencounters: On the Korean War and Diasporic Memory Critique Temple UP
Jacqueline Beckvermit, Joseph Peterson, Todd Harman, Scott Bardenhagen, Charles Wight, Qingyu Meng, and Martin Berzins (2013) Multiscale Modeling of Accidental Explosions and Detonations [PDF]
Wayne D. Cocroft, Catherine Tuck, Jonathan Clarke & Joanna Smith (2005) The Development of the Chilworth Gunpowder Works, Surrey, from the Mid-19th Century, Industrial Archaeology Review, 27:2, 217-234, DOI: 10.1179/030907205X73527
Tao Leigh Goffe (2019) “Guano in Their Destiny”: Race, Geology, and a Philosophy of Indenture, Amerasia Journal, 45:1, 27-49, DOI: 10.1080/00447471.2019.1617625
Tiffany Lethabo King (2019) The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies Duke UP.
Alexei Y. Poludnenko, Jessica Chambers, Kareem Ahmed, Vadim N. Gamezo, and Brian D. Taylor (2019) A Unified Mechanism for Unconfined Deflagration-to-Detonation Transition in Terrestrial Chemical Systems and Type Ia Supernovae, Science 366, no. 6465 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aau7365.
Adam M. Romero, Julie Guthman, Ryan E. Galt, Matt Huber, Becky Mansfield & Suzana Sawyer (2017) Chemical Geographies, GeoHumanities, 3:1, 158-177, DOI: 10.1080/2373566X.2017.1298972
Kathryn Yusoff (2019). A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None. Minnesota UP.