- See Matteo Pasquinelli, “ Machinic Capitalism and Network Surplus Value: Notes on the Political Economy of the Turing Machine, ” 2011, http://matteopasquinelli.com/docs/ Pasquinelli\_Machinic\_Capitalism.pdf.
- With great care and skill, Jussi Parikka explores the deep materiality of our media technology hardware in A Geology of Media (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015).
- See USGS survey at http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/niobium/myb1 -2009-niobi.pdf and Philippa Velhinho, “ Corporate Coltan Rush Fuels Congolese Violence, ” Green Left Weekly, September 24, 2012, https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/52337.
- See Conrad Taylor, “ The Curse of Congo ’ s Mineral Wealth, ” Conradiator, November 11, 2008, https://conradiator.wordpress.com/2008/11/11/the-curse-of-congos-mineral-wealth.
- After KONY2012, the ill-fated social media campaign, we could define a “ Konyism ” as a selfcongratulatory Africa-themed social cause, invested in by well-meaning but naive Westerners, that ultimately has little effect other than wasting the concern of benefactors, or worse.
- Chiara Frazzoli and Orish E. Orisakwe, “ Electronic Revolution and Electronic Wasteland: The West/Waste Africa Experience, ” Journal of Natural and Environmental Sciences, October 2, 2010, http://www.academyjournal.net/asj/index.php/NES/article/viewFile/27/ORISAKWE.
- E. A. Grosz, Chaos, Territory, Art: Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008), 17.
- Andrew Benjamin, Architectural Philosophy (New York: Continuum Press, 2001), is a particularly interesting study of these various forms of the line. Deleuze and Guattari ’ s typology in the chapter “ On the Line ” is an essential definition. Gilles Deleuze and F é lix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1980).
- Stuart Elden ’ s work on the history of the notion of territory is instructive here. See his The Birth of Territory (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013).
- Remember that within the Western European philosophical tradition, Georges Bataille defined architecture as the “ physiognomy of power, ” an actual anatomy of the social, and Walter Benjamin referred to history as “ a state of siege, ” a capturing and binding behind the fortifying wall (Holier, 1990, Benjamin, 1986). Today it is almost axiomatic in contemporary architectural theory to cite the partition, the very verb and noun of cleaving space and of instantiating that gesture with a solid plane as perhaps the fundamental grammar of territory and enclosure (Andrew Benjamin on this). The central importance of “ partition ” is a scarce point of agreement on ontological matters between those associated with the deconstructive turn (Wigley, 1995) and the Deleuzian program that displaced it in architectural curricula. See Bernard Cache, Earth
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