Extraction: the action of extracting something, especially using effort or force

The extractive global economy violates Earth’s planetary boundaries at an accelerating pace and scale in order to sustain the perpetual chase of the industrial sublime. The harbingers of catastrophe abound, yet quotidian life proceeds with business-as-usual. Modernity’s imposing narrative and materialist gaze has calcified us to the logic of unending commodification and gamification of all things sacred. To the extent that we find ourselves embedded in a consumer culture devoid of all meaning. Despite the proliferation of permacrises, these systems and structures are so deeply rooted in the collective psyche that they can be difficult to think beyond. This yarn traces the coarse wires of structural inequality and the long, violent history of Europatriarchal racial capitalism that has entrenched the hierarchy of being.