Issue #137 Ashes to Ashes: On Combustion and Tyranny

Ashes to Ashes: On Combustion and Tyranny

Fábio Zuker

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Fires in the Alter do Chão region. Photo: Brigada de Alter do Chão.

Issue #137
June 2023










Notes
1

See Christophe Bonneuil and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, The Shock of the Anthropocene: The Earth, History and Us (Verso, 2017).—Eds.

2

Stephan J. Pyne, “Welcome to the Pyrocene,” Grist, August 18, 2021 . See also Pyne’s book The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next (University of California Press, 2021).

3

Pyne, “Welcome to the Pyrocene.”

4

See Anna Tsing’s multimedia project Feral Atlas .

5

Timothy Mitchell, Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil (Verso, 2011).

6

Wendy Brown, In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West (Columbia University Press, 2019).

7

Jason W. Moore, Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital (Verso, 2015).

8

“Surrounded by Agribusiness, Xavante Territory Suffers a High Death Rate from Covid,” InfoAmazônia/O Joio e o Trigo/El País, 2021.

9

Alana Moraes, “The War of the Worlds, Colonial Wounds, and the Aspiration for Collective Determination and a Dignified Life,” interview by Patrícia Fachin, Revista do Instituto Humanitas Unisinos, 2021.

10

Letícia Klein and Thiago Medaglia, “Smokescreen,” Ambiental Media, 2020 .

11

For more on this concept, see Marc Peipoch, et. al., "Ecological Simplification: Human Influences on Riverscape Complexity," BioScience 65, no. 11 (November 2015): 1057–1065.

Translated from the Portuguese by Sophie R. Lewis and Ezra E. Fitz. This essay was first published in Jornal Nossa Voz, publication of Casa do Povo (Brazil)