On the multiple frontiers of extraction: excavating contemporary capitalism

By Sandro Mezzadra, Brett Neilson. 2017

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Subfields: Building and Construction, Geography, Planning and Development, Political Science and International Relations

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Citations in the corpus

• Data Colonialism: Rethinking Big Data’s Relation to the Contemporary Subject (2018, background): “More helpful are approaches which see what is going on with data as a form of fundamental appropriation (Greene and Joseph 2015; Thatcher et al. 2016, drawing on Harvey 2004) or extraction (Mezzadra and Neilson 2017) of resources.”
• Automated landlord: Digital technologies and post-crisis financial accumulation (2019, background): “…2017) and expansive interpretations of logistics and extraction, respectively emphasizing the reorganization of economic space around the imperatives of circulation (Chua et al., 2018; Danyluk, 2017) and the application of “prospecting logics” to society (Mezzadra and Neilson, 2017: 194).”
• The Internet of Landlords: Digital Platforms and New Mechanisms of Rentier Capitalism (2020, background): “Drawing close analogies with natural resource exploitation — notably, a major source of rents for the owners of resource rights — data mining is now seen as one of the “ frontiers of extraction ” in contemporary capitalism (Mezzadra and Neilson 2017; Thatcher et al. 2016).”
• Decolonial AI: Decolonial Theory as Sociotechnical Foresight in Artificial Intelligence (2020, background): “opportunities for extraction and excavation within data mining industries, which are arguably ingrained in practices and techniques of extraction [and] is a kind of colonial imprint (Mezzadra and Neilson, 2017), as demonstrated in part by the location of many ghost workers in previously colonised ge”
• When data is capital: Datafication, accumulation, and extraction (2019, background): “Indeed, following in the footsteps of other extractive enterprises through capitalism’s history such as land grabs and resource mining (Mezzadra and Neilson, 2017), many of the now common practices of data accumulation should actually be understood in terms of the more forceful practice of data…”