Insurgent Geologies
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Editors Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch, Owen Hopkins, Kabage Karanja, Stella Mutegi, Kathryn Yusoff
Architecture is geological and geology is a medium of empire building, now at the scale of the planet. As colonial geology produced a grammar of extraction, where race and land became a twinned enterprise of inscription, anti-colonial practices built other languages of and in earths—Black, brown, red earths, fraternal earths, matrilineal earths, ancestral earths, flesh of the earth, cooked earths. Within these other practices of architecture was an anti-colonial intellectual tradition that saw the question of liberation and environmental activism as indivisible.
Insurgent Geologies is a collaboration between e-flux Architecture and “GBR: Geology of Britannic Repair,” the British Pavilion at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, curated by Kathryn Yusoff, Stella Mutegi, Kabage Karanja, and Owen Hopkins, commissioned by the British Council.
Contributors Kathryn Yusoff, Stella Mutegi, Kabage Karanja, Owen Hopkins, e-flux Architecture, Hugo ka Canham, Huda Tayob, Achille Mbembe, Nzinga B. Mboup, Eva Branscome , Stella Mutegi, Sandra Nzioki, Hannah le Roux, Nana Biamah-Ofosu, Margarida N. Waco , Patti Anahory, Sarah Nuttall, Bonolo Masango, Sechaba Maape, Kabage Karanja, Lesley Green, Planetary Portals