Shapes on the Horizon: Reading the Pumice Raft and Migration through Agentic Ecologies and Australian Border Control

In 2019, reports of a raft of pumice adrift in the Pacific Ocean circulated. Expelled from the Earth by an underwater volcanic eruption, the raft is wonderous and abject, severed from its geologic origins. A threatening Anthropocene omen, it troubles the smooth space of the ocean through its intrusi...

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Main Authors: Chantelle Mitchell, Jaxon Waterhouse
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture 2020-12-01
Series:On_Culture
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Online Access:https://www.on-culture.org/journal/issue-10/shapes-horizon/