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AI Extractivism: Global Systems, Local Processes
Saturday September 5, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
Clark ABC
From colonial cattle economies to gold, critical minerals, and data centers, this session presents AI as an evolving extractive regime of global capitalism that reorganizes governance frameworks. It examines how system logics within emerging geopolitical structures translate into local politics and collective responses, exploring possibilities for transnational resistance and solidarity.
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Shiera S. al-Malik

Shiera S. el-Malik is Professor of International Studies at DePaul University in Chicago. She teaches and writes on themes of coloniality, politics, and theory. Her research is guided by an interest in the intersection of politics of knowledge and lived experience, particularly in... Read More →
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V'cenza Cirefice

Dr. V’cenza Cirefice is an ecofeminist researcher, organiser and artist from the Mourne Mountains in the North of Ireland. She works on themes of resistance to extractivism and feminist political ecology. Currently she organises with CAIM, Communities Against the Injustice of Mining... Read More →
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Marta Cook

Marta Cook is a researcher, writer, and widely recognized as one of the foremost harpists in Irish traditional music. Her article Subjects of Tradition: Cultural Construction and Irish Comprador Capitalism appeared in Irish Studies Review Volume 32, 2024. Her work on cultural extractivism... Read More →
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Fawn E. Pochel

Fawn E. Pochel (they/she), a gender-queer urban Native, works closely with communities across Chicago to incorporate land-based pedagogies and Indigenous worldview into curricula and policy while working towards dismantling systems of white supremacy. Their father, a member of the... Read More →
Saturday September 5, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
Clark ABC
  Science and Tech

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