Document Type
Photo Essay
Publication Date
8-9-2016
Abstract
Match, wood, flame. Pyrocultures, settler colonial pyrophobia. Internal combustion. Wildfire. Petrocapitalist immolation. This short photo essay reflects on fire as simultaneously a sensuous phenomenon of everyday life and an entity that, because of both its presence and its absence in particular formations, makes worlds. To be aware, both corporeally and politically, of our involvement in pyric practices and regimes allows us to begin to imagine what it might mean to understand and change our relations to fire as part of a larger project of energetic transformation: bodily, socially, politically.
Recommended Citation / Citation recommandée
Sandilands, Catriona.
"Combustion."
The Goose, vol. 15
,
no.
1
, article 3,
2016,
https://scholars.wlu.ca/thegoose/vol15/iss1/3.
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