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Antonia Majaca @antoniamajaca on the contemporary legacy of Marx’s turn to metabolic-rift theory.

Read it at e-flux Journal 157 via the link in bio.

Image: Ancient rice terraces in Yuanyang County, Yunnan, 2003. Photo: Jialiang Gao. License: CC BY-SA 3.0. by @antoniamajaca

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Existing sciences can be easily perverted to serve the aims of the dominant order they might have seemed to upend. Antonia Majaca finds two grammars animating contemporary techno-fascism: counting and clearing. While both were fundamental logics for settler-colonialism from the outset, she describes how they were systematized into theories of energy and sovereignty, respectively, and justified by perverse readings of Darwin. In this way, the dominance of a species is mapped onto the state, and only forms of social organization that prioritize maximum extraction and maximum destruction (and thus maximum surplus) are made to seem like the fittest, obscuring other forms of communal energy exchange that subsist at the margins.

Read it at e-flux journal issue 165. Link in bio.

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Image: Bison skulls awaiting grinding into fertilizer and bone char, Michigan Carbon Works, Detroit, c. 1892. The herds were destroyed as a condition of clearing the plains; the bones were then weighed and sold back to the agriculture industry. License: Public domain. by @antoniamajaca

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Join us on Tuesday 20 October, 7pm, at e-flux (172 Classon Ave, Brooklyn) for the New York launch of Incomputable Earth: Technology and the Anthropocene Hypothesis.

I’ll present the conceptual framework, and three contributors will each take up a different site of the problem. Tega Brain on the word “ecosystem” and what it has edited out since Tansley coined it in 1935. Gary Zhexi Zhang on finance as the planet’s infrastructure of time and how catastrophe gets priced. Brian Kuan Wood on whether art can change how technology is conceived.

Free admission. If you want to join us, please RSVP as soon as you can: https://www.e-flux.com/events/6783394/incomputable-earth-technology-and-the-anthropocene-hypothesis by @antoniamajaca

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Vienna was great. Thank you to Sofia Bempeza and Annette Krauss, and to the Department of Art and Communication Practices at the Angewandte, for hosting the launch of Incomputable Earth: Technology and the Anthropocene Hypothesis as the opening event of this year’s Dirty Pink Waters of Collectivity. And thank you to Monika Halkort for being in dialogue with me about the book. Loved the discussion and the Q&A that followed! Grateful to everyone who came and stayed to talk. @sofakiwut @dieangewandte

Next stop: e-flux, New York, 20 October. by @antoniamajaca

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I took Incomputable Earth: Technology and the Anthropocene Hypothesis mushroom hunting, and that was the first stop of its tour. This week it goes to Vienna, on October 15 at the Angewandte, where I’ll be in conversation with Monika Halkort. Next week it’s New York, on October 20 at e-flux with Tega Brain, Brian Kuan Wood, and Gary Zhexi Zhang. London, Berlin, and Venice will follow soon.

The book comes out of The Incomputable, the research project funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) that I led as principal investigator at IZK – Institute for Contemporary Art, Faculty of Architecture, TU Graz, where I was also a visiting professor. My thanks go to IZK for hosting me and the project, and to Milica Tomić, then director of IZK, who trusted me with it and supported its development. I’m grateful to my brilliant executive editor and research coordinator Lola Pfeiffer, and to the FWF, which also made the book open access. Thank you also to the associate editors Alan Smart, Alex Fletcher and Mika Hayashi Ebbesen. Thank you Rafaela Drazic for the cover art.

Thank you also to Jason W. Moore, Macarena Gómez-Barris, Alf Hornborg, Stefan Helmreich, Lucy Suchman, and Federico Demaria for reading the book and endorsing it.

And above all, thank you to the contributors:
Marina Vishmidt, Gary Zhexi Zhang, Matteo Pasquinelli, Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler, Imani Jacqueline Brown, Arturo Escobar, Michal Osterweil and Kriti Sharma, Juaniko Moreno, Yuk Hui and Brian Kuan Wood, Sara Garzón, Conrad Moriarty-Cole and James Phillips, Tega Brain, Victor G. García-Castañeda, Elise Misao Hunchuck, Marco Ferrari and Jingru (Cyan) Cheng, Michaela Büsse and Konstantin Mitrokhov, fields harrington and Katherine McKittrick, Luciana Parisi, Margarida Mendes, Mari Bastashevski, Ana Teixeira Pinto, Kevin Walker, Conor McKeown, and Daniela Zyman.

Free to read at bloomsburycollections.com by @antoniamajaca

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How @kellieodempsey saw me while giving my talk at the Metabolic Commons last week. by @antoniamajaca

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How to make a perfect omelette by Michael Taussig. by @antoniamajaca

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Metabolic Commons: Against Entropic Zones and the Ecology That War Built

Feminist Political Ecology Workshop

21–22 September 2026 · Aula Mario Baratto, Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Curated by Rose-Anne Gush (Graz University of Technology) and Antonia Majaca (Ca' Foscari University of Venice) @antoniamajaca

The frameworks that govern environmental governance and climate policy inherit from Cold War military research, colonial field sites and postwar techno-scientific infrastructures, which shaped both, which questions could be asked, and which were foreclosed. In that lineage, life was progressively reformulated as a thermodynamic process, onto which competition was encoded as an ecological necessity. The ecology that naturalised maximum energy describes an ecosystem and a market economy with identical indifference to what is being maximised, for whom, and at whose expense. This ecology survives in ecosystem services, carbon stocks and natural capital; rearmament and the green transition are being financed at the very same moment. Without critical reflection, the transition reorganises the structure it claims to resolve, shifting the extractive frontier and subsidising itself with reproductive and subsistence labour.

This workshop uses the thermodynamic vocabulary against the grain of its inheritance. An entropic zone is a territory, community or body whose social-ecological reserves have been irreversibly dissipated through extraction, then made to appear as the natural background of accumulation. Capital's metabolism works by networking entropic zones, from Lubumbashi, Wolfsberg, to southern Greenland and the Atacama, joined in a single infrastructure of accumulation.

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http://www.unive.it/metabolic-commons

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Image: Marwa Arsanios, Who is Afraid of Ideology? Part 4 Reverse Shot (still), 2022. Courtesy of the artist.
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#cafoscari by @antoniamajaca

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Full programme/ join remotely: unive.it/metabolic-commons (link in bio). @marwaarsanios @farah.alkhoury @valeblusamu_u @casa_clotilde @borisonik6000 @mchliaea @louise.carver @jmdiamanti @giulizhuli @wietske_maas @terike.haapoja @sanclementebeachbum @francesca.tarocco @vilannna @ennesr__ @livingcommons @kraeuterquatsch @ju_u_92 @kairostina @kellieodempsey @a_v_i__v_a_r_m_a @izk_tugraz @nichevenicecf taken in Venice, Italy by @antoniamajaca

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End times fascism is real, but the end times are a schedule kept by people who have somewhere to go. If you can’t buy the bunker or found the tech republic in Greenland, nothing has a date on it. It’s just Tuesday, and the mine is being permitted, and the data centre is happening anyway, and your water is poisoned. In Croatia right now the toxic waste is already in the back yard and nobody was told about it.
So fascism is not a threshold but a degree. Rastko Močnik asked how much fascism rather than whether, writing from inside the war in the mid-90s. “Is it fascism” can be answered yes or no while “How much” makes you go and look at what has been built, who built it, on whose land and with whose money.

Koliko fašizma?, Arkzin, Zagreb, 1999, translated by Srećko Pulig, published by the people who ran the Anti-War Campaign. @whw_what.how.for.whom carried the question into their exhibitions between 2011 and 2014. Out of print, I think.
I went back to it for my piece in the new issue of @e_flux journal.
@naomiaklein #rastkomočnik taken in Sisak, Croatia by @antoniamajaca

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In the next LW we will learn with Imani, and try to trace how extraction changes form each time resistance gains ground. How did self-emancipated people make lifeworlds where colonial cartographers drew a void? What replaced the slave trade once it was abolished, and what did extractivism reach for when anticolonial movements rose? How should we read the picture from December 1975, of Cuban soldiers defending a US corporate facility on behalf of the MPLA? And what would a recursive reorientation toward nonassimilative reintegration require of us?

Imani Jacqueline Brown is an artist, activist, writer and architectural researcher, raised in New Orleans and based in London, where she is a doctoral candidate in the School of Geography at Queen Mary, University of London. Her work investigates the “continuum of extractivism”, which spans from settler-colonial genocide and slavery to fossil fuel production and climate chaos. Conceptualizing extractivism as a cosmology, she reworks the vectors of corporate-colonial violence into networks of solidarity and paths to ecological reparations, combining archival research, remote sensing, counter-cartography, oral history and legal theory in video installations, sculptural objects and murals. Her research has been presented as investigative reports and as legal testimony in courtrooms and at the United Nations. She holds an MA in Forensic Architecture from Goldsmiths, University of London.

“Learning With” is an experimental workshop series and the primary methodology of the Radical Epistemologies cluster at NICHE led by Antonia Majaca.
Organized by HealthXCross ERC project, DFBC, and by NICHE. More info: https://www.unive.it/data/33113/26/118857 @nichevenicecf @dfbc.cafoscari by @antoniamajaca

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