The Earth Writers: Contact and Extraction in Found Poetry

A lens for the entangled histories of exploitation and regeneration, J. Mulcahy's essay examines how art and poetry transform zones of ecological and social devastation into contact zones.

Authored by J. Mulcahy

Coined by Anna Tsing and Donna Haraway, the Plantationocene acts as a counterpoint to the Anthropocene, shifting focus away from the often abstract concept of human impact on the planet and highlighting the concrete realities of how specific systems—such as colonial exploitation, capitalist economies, and large-scale agriculture—ha…