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When Stoner was published in 1965, the novel sold only a couple of thousand copies before disappearing with hardly a trace. Yet John Williams's quietly powerful tale of a Midwestern college professor,

Deserted villages of rural Mexico, where images and memories of the past linger like unquiet ghosts, haunted the imaginations of two artists - writer Juan Rulfo and photographer Josephine Sacabo. In

Focuses on contemporary art and media to examine the role of visuals in environmental violence and war in Northern Kurdistan. Extractivism--exploiting the earth for resources--has long driven racial capitalism and colonialism. And yet, how does extractivism operate in a world where ecological and humanitarian sensibilities are unprecedentedly widespread? Eray ylı argues it does so by mobilizing these sensibilities in new ways. Extractivism is no longer only about moving the earth--displacing peoples, fossils, minerals, and waters--but also leaving those who witness this violent displacement sentimentally moved. Earthmoving conceptualizes this duality. Derived from ylı's years-long work in Northern Kurdistan, home to the world's largest stateless nation--rendered stateless by colonial policies since the nineteenth century--Earthmoving focuses on the 2010s, a decade that began with peace talks between Turkey and the Kurdish liberation movement but ended with war. The decade