The Avery Review
Climates of Extraction
The warming planet is not only exposing bare rock where glaciers once loomed and incinerating unimaginable acres of forest; it is also throwing into relief the extractive means and mindsets through which this destruction is produced—as well as the unevenness in which its unfolding effects are experienced. The essays gathered here use the overlapping lenses of climate change and resource use to examine how architecture and the built environment are implicated in systems of exploitation and colonialism whose deadly endgame is at the scale of the Earth itself. These essays also begin to test the potential of this new planetary perspective, asking how it might give rise to new ways of understanding ourselves—politically, ecologically, philosophically—and, tantalizingly, to new ways of reimagining a world that values life over profit.
Glass Elephants, in the Avery Review 46 (April 2020).
Two Islands, in the Avery Review 41 (September 2019).
Conduction, in the Avery Review 14 (March 2016).
Deep Mapping, in the Avery Review 13 (February 2016).