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« No common ground, not even online: Matthew Homer, ‘The Problem with Common Ground: Translation and Colonial Logics in the ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center Online Interface’, Technical Communication & Social Justice, 1, 1, 2023, pp. 107-128
The violence of settler colonial aftermaths: Angela Wanhalla, Lyndall Ryan, Camille Nurka (eds), Aftermaths: Colonialism, Violence and Memory in Australia, New Zealand and the PacificOtago University Press, 2023 »

Settler colonial parasitism: Marilyn Grell-Brisk, ‘Introduction to the Symposium: Parasitism and the Logics of Anti-Indigeneity and Antiblackness’, Journal of World-Systems Research, 29, 1, 2023, pp. 4-24

25Mar23

Excerpt: The violent removal of the custodians of Indigenous ancestral lands also meant that white settler colonialists illegitimately secured and consumed an unequal amount of energy while additionally generating entropic energy via land exploitation (remember that entropic energy is energy not available to do work).

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