M’s Reviews > Deserts Are Not Empty > Status Update

“These after lives of unevenly distributed, corporation-led harm ravage the urban remnants of high-carbon industrial practices, extractive economies, and settler colonialism. The dust storms bring a sense of environmental uncanniness; modernity is materially readdressed by the unintentional consequences of its own grand designs.”

“Colonialism is in many different ways a politics of “desertification.” It is a mode of power that aims at eliminating diversity and difference—whether that difference be cultural, ethnic, or ecological—and at homogenizing populations and environments in order to control, exploit, and profit from them.”