Society+Space Magazine. Amelia Hine & Charity Edwards, C. (2023)
Extractive interest in the once-remote polymetallic nodules has grown rapidly in an era of constrained resources where global narratives frame shallower mineral deposits as increasingly depleted and heightened political tensions as making reliance on ‘critical mineral’ imports less desirable. However, this is not simply a case of running out of deposits….The deep seabed is constructed as a place sans liveliness, where polymetallic nodules exist disconnected from human and/or nonhuman relationships, but representations, and the narratives they foster, matter.
Read more here, open access:
https://www.societyandspace.org/articles/abyssal-hyperreality
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