Bodies of Extraction
Underneath the Ground of Islands
by edited by David Bergé and Milica Ivic
What does it mean to drill deep and interfere with the configuration of tectonic plates? What does it mean to hollow out and alienate islandic undergrounds? How is wealth extracted and exploited from the ground, crumbled into fragments, transformed into matter, pieces of power, moved away to be represented elsewhere? Whose lungs and souls are capitalized upon and hidden under the suffocating dust in mining shafts? To whom do the surface of the land and its underground belong? This book takes proto-industrial mining in the Aegean island of Serifos as an entry point for disclosing historical and contemporary consequences of politics of the soil through land extraction, and looks at how mineral evidence was historically produced, disseminated, and capitalized upon in the Aegean region and beyond.
Mineral Travels:
Fragments of Geographies on the Move
by Lydia Xynogala
The Evil in the Surface
by Lorena Vicini
Consuming Land at Serifos
by Asli Özdoyuran
and David Bergé
Letter from Frikas Fortress
by Constantinos Speras
Iron Lungs
by Milica Ivic
Walking on Marble: Materialized Histories
by Anna Run Tryggvadottir
the production of the first print
of this book was in part supported
by Goethe-Institut Athen