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... enterprise deployed by SQM, a transnational mining company operating in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile. Proposing a fictional ethnography methodology, the essay historicizes lithium extraction and its political implications, from its extraction from Chilean subsoils to its assemblage into an iPhone...

... happening here. 19 I realize that attentional deviance may be too apolitical for some readers’ tastes. And it is certainly true that examining the moral status of rocks, let alone iPhones and other human artifacts, is not exactly a recipe for political relevance. Particularly in times like...

... like my iPhone too. I like the news media. I like social media. I like feeling informed but also put out and self-righteous. I take inspiration from my grandfather’s oil paintings and pastel drawings, which I keep around the apartment as family heirlooms. I look at them every day. I engage a different...

... the strata of the earth. Moreover, such explosive events often cut into the sped-up cycles of planned obsolescence championed by global tech giants such as Apple, whose iPhone 6 production in China, for example, was halted by governmental investigations into dust control in all factories after the Kunshan...