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... As a signifier of techno-urban development, the Pacific Rim still enchants in its mysterious allure, as if this geo-imaginary moved toward a utopic destiny hailing disparate countries into its transnational coalition of region, place, community, motivation, and cultural identity. The vast...

..., the Pacific Rim still enchants in its mysterious allure, as if this geo-imaginary moved toward a utopic destiny hailing disparate countries into its transnational coalition of region, place, community, motivation, and cultural identity. The vast Pacific Ocean and its alluring ring of volcanic formations links...

...) that secured imaginaries of Life (bios) through racial violence and inhuman extraction, the chapter presents the theory of geologic life to speak to the antagonisms between inhuman (geos) and Life (partial bios) as it is historically and conceptually arranged through the spatial division of race. Geologic Life...

.... Disrupting the dominant tenets of the colonial matrix of materiality (as geos) that secured imaginaries of Life (bios) through racial violence and inhuman extraction, the chapter presents the theory of geologic life to speak to the antagonisms between inhuman (geos) and Life (partial bios...

... ) and Nonlife ( geos ). This subtending geontopower is not new and was always apparent in settler colonies like Australia. The chapter asks, on the one hand, what is causing this subtending form of governance to appear, and, on the other hand, what new strategies, tactics, and discourses are emerging...

..., showing how a specifically Colombian geographic knowledge was developed as one that hinged on political speculation as well as an invocation of Discovery-oriented desire toward the country’s terrain. Geo-graphy, as a mode of writing the “wretched wastelands” of the earth into the “civilized” world, also...