Extractive capitalism is a form of capitalism that is based on the extraction of profit from humankind and nature as opposed to the modernist idea of productivity and mass consumption. The term is conceptualized by Saskia Sassen in her anthropological poem Expulsions, in which she describes how the second phase of capitalism leaves behind dead land and dead water through the extraction of palm oil, rare metals for electronics, diamonds and so on. This term helps us understand how contemporary capitalism works and bring the common denominator to various processes of extracting profits from the earth and from the body. EC is rather a gigantic mechanism for extracting value from humanity and nature, with the gradual exhaustion of all possible resources, including life, psycho and cognitive abilities and the biosphere. “Like potash fertilizers, human resources, their education and intelligence participate in the export of goods and services from Belarus (and other countries), operating on the same principle. Using the difference in the costs of resources and labour, transnational companies create a situation of exhaustion of the latter from a specific territory and communities. In one case – natural. In the second – intellectual and emotional. And yet, in our current climate, human capacities are stretched, treated as expendable and replaceable.”
Author: Aleksei Borisionok
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Nadia Degtyareva, Nick Degtyarev
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GRECHA
dispersed collectivity,
psychodata,
affective labour,
intimate interfaces,
outsourcing,
extractive capitalism,
quick knowledge,
digital proletariat,
extensions,
speculative synthesis,
tongue and teeth of creativity,
htp,
great stone,
alienation,
repetition
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Anastasia Vepreva
irla: an ideal rejection letter to an artist,
corridor anomalies,
affective labour,
quick knowledge,
extractive capitalism,
desire,
digital proletariat,
practice of small movements,
tongue and teeth of creativity,
repetition,
great stone,
alienation,
weak disease
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APART
from the future at the present,
quick knowledge,
all to all,
extractive capitalism,
desire,
mother-machine,
practices of ourselves,
production drama,
digital proletariat,
practice of small movements,
extensions,
speculative synthesis,
tongue and teeth of creativity,
protocols of self-organisation,
great stone
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Lena Klabukova
corridor anomalies,
quick knowledge,
extractive capitalism,
desire,
intimate interfaces,
mother-machine,
oriental retromania,
practices of ourselves,
psychodata,
sports interest,
practice of small movements,
extensions,
national academy of sciences as witch,
sanatorium,
great stone,
intoxication,
care virus
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Lika Kareva
from the future at the present,
8-BIT DESIRE,
extractive capitalism,
cyberfeminism,
contingency,
mother-machine,
joy acceleration,
extensions,
self-destructing structures,
speculative synthesis,
htp,
protocols of self-organisation,
great stone,
rhythm
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Maria Rybka and Yuriy Kuzmenko
corridor anomalies,
outsourcing,
extractive capitalism,
desire,
object,
digital proletariat,
extensions,
places of transparency,
self-destructing structures,
htp,
great stone,
intoxication
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Roman Aksionov
corridor anomalies,
outsourcing,
all to all,
extractive capitalism,
left melancholy,
production drama,
spontaneous grassroots alternative,
exploitation of hidden motivation,
practice of small movements,
national academy of sciences as witch,
self-destructing structures,
repetition,
alienation
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Uladzimir Hramovich
from the future at the present,
quick knowledge,
extractive capitalism,
all to all,
left melancholy,
production drama,
national academy of sciences as witch,
places of transparency,
self-destructing structures,
alienation,
exclusion of non-perspective pedestrians,
great stone
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Lena Ischenko, Anya Litovskih, Masha Sarycheva, Tonya Trubitsyna
great stone,
weak disease,
repetition,
exclusion of non-perspective pedestrians,
extractive capitalism,
from the future at the present,
practice of small movements,
self-destructing structures,
protocols of self-organisation,
production drama,
social choreography,
tongue and teeth of creativity
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Max Evstropov / party of the dead
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Olia Sosnovskaya
alienation,
desire,
extractive capitalism,
intimate interfaces,
intoxication,
pharmachoreography,
political dancefloor,
production drama,
rhythm,
social choreography,
weak disease
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«Union of convalescents» and playfellows