Unraveling Industry
A work in progress launching Spring 2021.
An investigation into the network of oil and gas infrastructure in the Mississippi River Delta of southeastern Louisiana. Through multiple outcomes, including a digital counter-mapping platform, this project disentangles snarled permits for wells, pipelines, and canals. This will be the first map that organizes this infrastructure by company, rendering corporate accountability visible and sensible and building a public case for “ecological reparations”—reparations for segregated human communities as well as between human beings and our wider ecosystems.
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This project investigates the corporate-colonial cosmologies that our extractive cultures follow to the end(s) of the earth and imagines horizons of justice. 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.

