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Humans possess mountains. Mountains are possessed by humans. What curse is at work here? What symbolic, legal, material and historical forms of proprietary possession are there? What forms and histories of dispossession do they imply? And how can we succeed in emancipating landscapes from the curse of property?
Somewhere below the Weinebene, between Styria and Carinthia, one of the largest lithium deposits in the EU can be found. The deposit was discovered at the height of the nuclear age; in the search for uranium, geologists found lithium instead, worthless at the time. Privatised decades ago for a "symbolic shilling", the "Traudl-Stollen" ("Traudl Tunnel") and all associated mining rights now belong to an American-Australian mining group. "Critical Metals" plans to mine the light metal in Carinthia, process it in Saudi Arabia, and sell it to BMW as "European Lithium". A legally, ideally,…
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Humans possess mountains. Mountains are possessed by humans. What curse is at work here? What symbolic, legal, material and historical forms of proprietary possession are there? What forms and histories of dispossession do they imply? And how can we succeed in emancipating landscapes from the curse of property?
Somewhere below the Weinebene, between Styria and Carinthia, one of the largest lithium deposits in the EU can be found. The deposit was discovered at the height of the nuclear age; in the search for uranium, geologists found lithium instead, worthless at the time. Privatised decades ago for a "symbolic shilling", the "Traudl-Stollen" ("Traudl Tunnel") and all associated mining rights now belong to an American-Australian mining group. "Critical Metals" plans to mine the light metal in Carinthia, process it in Saudi Arabia, and sell it to BMW as "European Lithium". A legally, ideally,…
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