Unraveling Industry
http://followtheoil.org
2019-2022
Unraveling Industry is a platform to map oil and gas infrastructure in Louisiana by
company, supporting local and global demands for corporate
accountability and “ecological reparations”—reparations for segregated human communities as well as between human beings and our wider ecosystems.
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Beyond the platform, the project will manifest in various creative outcomes to explore the corporate-colonial cosmologies that our extractive culture follows to the end(s) of the earth. It traces corporate-colonial guiding lines through the continuum of Extractivism, which spans from colonialism and slavery to coastal erosion and climate change. Uses a methodology I call cartographic unraveling, it disentangles and analyzes the GIS lines (pipelines and canals) and points (wells) used to make geography, unmake communities, and break Earth’s geology.

