Finishing the academic year with over 100 entries of short stories, poems, and serialised fiction added to the #ImperialMinerals database thanks to the excellent work of my PhD student, Katie Donnelly. Really excited about sharing all of these #extractivist texts with you in the new year. Think gothic, Christmas stories, and adventure tales galore. Much more to come!

"The extent to which #extractivist #platforms have embraced #FreeCulture, capitalizing on voluntary #work and free labor, has become clear, as well as how the success of Free/Libre and #OpenSource #Software relied on its alignment with an #IT #industry profiting from #exploitation and speculating on growth. [...] How can we create conditions for re-use which acknowledge different kinds of contributors? What would a #decolonial and #feminist #license look like which could acknowledge entangled notions of #authorship? #CC4r opens up a space for negotiation and conversation, but is far from answering any of these questions. With CC4r, we hope to incite thoughtful and irreverent #practices that do not evade these questions but instead invite its users to inhabit them. For us, CC4r is more than a license. It is a commitment to care for the collective conditions of the many, for “these explosions, the principle and #economy of which we have not begun to grasp, and whose outbursts we cannot predict.""
#ÉlodieMugrefya #FemkeSnelting
https://march.international/collectively-setting-conditions-for-re-use/

#FLOSS "Yet over time, some of the initial spark and potentiality of this inventive proposal has been normalized and the problems and omissions of #FreeCulture #licensing have become increasingly apparent. The extent to which #extractivist #platforms have embraced Free Culture, capitalizing on voluntary work and free labor, has become clear, as well as how the success of Free/Libre and #OpenSource Software relied on its alignment with an IT industry profiting from exploitation and speculating on growth." #ÉlodieMugrefya #FemkeSnelting
https://march.international/collectively-setting-conditions-for-re-use/
#licence

'climate change is the Earth telling us that nothing is free; that

the age of (white, male) human “dominion” has ended;

that there is no such thing as a one-way relationship comprised only of taking; that all actions have reactions.'
#NaomiKlein on the #CosmologicalThreat of giving up on #Oil , #FossilFuels , and #Nukes too I suppose , all the evil #extractivist ways...
https://theintercept.com/2022/03/01/war-climate-crisis-putin-trump-oil-gas/

A recent writing by #NaomkKlein reminded me of this remark by Amitov Ghosh.
' #Oil, in this context, is the symbol of the #extractivist mindset: not only a perceived God-given right to keep extracting #FossilFuels, but also the right to keep taking whatever they want, leave poison behind, and never look back.'
I've been re-reading parts of #ShockDoctrine to how #Putin arose from #ChicagoSchool polices, #GeorgeSoros and #HarvardAcademics lke #Sachs
https://theintercept.com/2022/03/01/war-climate-crisis-putin-trump-oil-gas/