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Fri, Nov 21
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Minerals, Magic, and Mining: The Politics of Animism in the Age of Critical Minerals
This talk will explore ideas around the animate nature of minerals and the speaker's current book project Earthworks: Political Geology in the Age of Critical Minerals (Verso, forthcoming) from a chapter about his encounters with sand mining on Mount Merapi volcano, Indonesia.
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Nov 21, 2025, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM GMT+7
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About the event
The talk will cover how the distinction between the organic and inorganic is a late 19th-century invention and how for the majority of human history it has been more common to think of rocks and minerals on a continuum of liveliness.
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