Fathoming the Scale of Extraction*
In their routine reports on global fisheries catches, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) normalises staggering levels of human predation.
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Marine Animal Extraction: 20th Century Intensification*
Human predation on marine beings increased exponentially from the industrialised 1900s. Myers and Worm estimate that the ‘biomass’ of large
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Historic Decline of Pre-industrial Fisheries: Northern Hemisphere
HMAP[1] researchers measured the number of marine animals taken from the ocean over centuries of fishing and whaling activity. In
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Quarrying the Deep Seabed*
The ocean is more than a life realm, the sum of species biodiversity, a vibrant phenomenon, space or fluid. Their local
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Deep seabed mining: a poster industry for blue capitalism*
Extractivism’s latest frontier has reached the remote, deep seabed. Corporations and their state sponsors are gearing up to mine manganese nodule
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Re-imagining the Common Heritage Principle[1]
The exploitation phase of the deep sea mining regime is looming into reality with resource corporations keen to extract mineral
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Re-thinking Blue
Despite the ocean’s predominant darkness, blue is increasingly universalised as a conflation of both the ocean and neo-liberal capital: blue
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Re-imagining the Ocean
A fact that often circulates about the ocean is that they cover over 70 percent of the earth’s surface. Less
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Deep Ocean Thinking
Thinking ecologically with the deep ocean and its long, slow-time relationalities requires placing time into our observations and responses. Material-temporal
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Oceanic and Juridical Imaginaries
Sophie Chao from More Than Human Matters recently asked me how I came to be interested in oceanic and juridical imaginaries
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