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<div>“A new form of extractivism defines life in the 21st Century.
It is one that reaches into the furthest corners of the biosphere and
the deepest layers of human cognitive and affective being: the stack
that underpins contemporary technological systems goes well beyond the
multi-layered 'technical stack' of data modeling, hardware,
servers, and networks. Today's full stack reaches into capital,
labor, and nature, while demanding an enormous amount from each.<br>
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<div>This animation and accompanying diagram gather together different
concepts and images of the new extractivism, proposing a semi coherent
picture of the full stack. The concepts that it presents are mostly
represented in the form of visual allegories. Dictionaries define
allegory as a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to
reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. All of
these allegories and concepts gathered here add up to a
blueprint-for a machine-like superstructure; a super allegory that
encompasses the whole world. What we have here is an almost fractal
allegorical structure-an allegory within an allegory within an
allegoryŠ"<br>
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Vladan Joler</div>
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<div>https://opensecret.kw-berlin.de/artwork/new-extractivism</div>
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