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As a polysemy—simultaneously meaning a large territorial area like earth or sea or spatial matter, an indefinite lapse of time, an anatomical structure or region, and a pamphlet or leaflet of religious and political propaganda—tract operates as an analytical vehicle that helps us follow occupation flows.*** Tracts lead into and guide us through the warfare-science-industry triad underpinning settler colonialism and imperialism stricto sensu in ways that expose the overlapping logics between racialized extraction, techno-finance fixes, economies of pleasure, legal dispositions, joint military training, and transfers of technology.

***Occupation flows - multiplex shifting material formations that run across regimes of power, at once reinforcing and obscuring the intimacies between settler colonialism and imperialism.

As an open rebellion against and refusal of authority, mutiny bursts the myth of liberal humanist hegemony fueled by the violent impositions of scientific epistemologies, military interventions and industrial production. We work through mutinous tracts to annotate the totalizing claims of violent epistemologies, warfare, and pollution; and to firmly situate dignity as a radical mode of futurity.

𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩 𝙢𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙮; emerges from a synthesis of our work and our worlds:

Aida Arosoaie is an anthropologist whose research explores the unfinishedness of space grounding liberal humanism’s extractive, military and metabolic ranges.

Anamika Singh is an interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker whose work undertakes the contested histories produced by transfers and flows of power and violence.