Pritchard, H

Rocha, J

Snelting, F

International audienceDuring recent years, geocomputation has become increasingly entangled with so-called 4D visualization. The contemporary infrastructure of fossil fuel extraction depends on these software tools for geological data handling, interpretation and modelling of subterranea. This paper makes use of the contaminated and contaminating practice of figuration to plot stories that highlight some of the milestones of deadly collaboration, of optimised acceleration, and of sedimented damage. It engages with three figurations of timely extraction (Consortium, Borehole and Amalgam), to tell stories that provide a way to make present the time-space complexities that emerge from the connections between extractivism, computation and semiotic-material values. The Underground Division studies those rocky figurations to expose some of their interdependent articulations such as transnational alliances, gold mining and geocomputation and how they shape life/non-life temporalities. We argue that the dynamic crossings of time and matter that Consortium, Borehole and Amalgam are embedded in establish a dynamics of repeated damage, via latent regimes which maintain extractive forces, practices and modes. We amalgamate the clock time of turbo-computing with the megaannums at the timeline of digitally mediated rocks to present agential combinations of exclusion and occlusion that each create unique modes of discrimination and privilege

Pritchard, Helen

Rocha, Jara

Snelting, Femke

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Figurations of Timely Extraction

During recent years, geocomputation has become increasingly entangled with
so-called 4D visualization. The contemporary infrastructure of fossil fuel
extraction depends on these software tools for geological data handling,
interpretation and modelling of subterranea. This paper makes use of the
contaminated and contaminating practice of figuration to plot stories that
highlight some of the milestones of deadly collaboration, of optimised
acceleration, and of sedimented damage. It engages with three figurations of
timely extraction (Consortium, Borehole and Amalgam), to tell stories that
provide a way to make present the time-space complexities that emerge from
the connections between extractivism, computation and semiotic-material
values. The Underground Division studies those rocky figurations to expose
some of their interdependent articulations such as transnational alliances, gold
mining and geocomputation and how they shape life/non-life temporalities.
We argue that the dynamic crossings of time and matter that Consortium,
Borehole and Amalgam are embedded in establish a dynamics of repeated
damage, via latent regimes which maintain extractive forces, practices and
modes. We amalgamate the clock time of turbo-computing with the
megaannums at the timeline of digitally mediated rocks to present agential
combinations of exclusion and occlusion that each create unique modes of
discrimination and privilege

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