| Title | Bloom |
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| Contributor | Jeff Diamanti (author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.53288/0404.1.05 |
| Landing page | https://punctumbooks.com/titles/solarities-elemental-encounters-and-refractions/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Jeff Diamanti |
| Publisher | punctum books |
| Published on | 2023-11-22 |
| Long abstract | This essay tracks the solar relations embedded in the short and long phosphorous cycle, tracking the bodies, bonds, and supply chains that connect its extraction in the occupied Western Sahara to planetary bloom ecologies. While phosphorous rarely contends with fossil fuels in the environmental imaginary, I argue that its role in supporting capital and corporeal accumulation in the long 20th century is as central to future ecologies as the fuels subtending petroculture. |
| Page range | pp. 63–69 |
| Print length | 7 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
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Jeff Diamanti is Assistant Professor of Environmental Humanities (Cultural Analysis & Philosophy) at the University of Amsterdam. In 2016–17 he was the Media@McGill Postdoctoral Fellow in Media and the Environment where he co-convened the international colloquium on Climate Realism, the results of which appear in a book collection on Routledge and a double issue of Resilience. His first book, Climate and Capital in the Age of Petroleum: Locating Terminal Landscapes (Bloomsbury 2021), tracks the political and media ecology of fossil fuels across the extractive and logistical spaces that connect remote territories like Greenland to the economies of North America and Western Europe. His new research, Bloom Ecologies, details the return to natural philosophy in the marine and atmospheric sciences studying the interactive dynamics of the cryosphere and hydrosphere in the North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean. He co-directs the ASCA Political Ecologies Seminar with Joost de Bloois, and with Amanda Boetzkes, he co-organizes “At the Moraine,” an ongoing research project on the political ecology of glacial retreat in the Arctic. With Fred Carter, he co-directs the FieldARTS arts and science residency in Amsterdam, Netherlands.