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    Ecological Imperialism in the Age of the Posthuman: David Fedele’s E-Wasteland Basak Adon Dinmes David Fedele's 20-minute documentary E-Wiseland (2012) focuses on ‘seri envionment crs emerging out ofthe heart of Aca The documentary ie sharp in one and die ins message, and abo lead the auiene to consider the highly posible ature ks avoe tv hs cris The electron debris the developed counreends up Inthe economially disadvantaged region ofthe word, where deprived people burs these oxerused technological devices to obtain copper in Feat fr economic gin. The documentary dias the heartbreaking onseqdences of this practice, While the moneary advantage deed from the deadly experience of open baring cables i apparel le nd leary inne for survival the hazards caused by the deuiments ‘eines. On the one hand thee ate cleat visible eet, sch 2 the inflation ofthe molten objets into ature. On te other hand, emcees will mot probably only become manifest the long rm, fo both the fea and the fauna, aswell as on peopl, for instanc, inthe ‘rm offi eset catsed bythe ialaon of pessonous gas emis ons. Almost a hundred years ater TS. E's Te Warland (1922), BA Dower) [ide Ear Tec Uaieniy, Scho! of Foreign Languages, parent is Engh, Url Man;Domuiar Baa, 106800 Anas, Tukey (©The Eo) (apie) an The Authors) 2016 7% [Ric Aes, $, Debora (es) desman, DorTo.1057/9781157 6361 5 the “unreal iy” (60) becomes rainy i the AghogDlotie slum in Acer, the apt of Ghana “The brown fo (Eliot Te Wassland 6) 's ow replaced withthe tonic fumes release from plate, chemical nd heavy metals such a lea, mercury, and cidmin, The ema OF the Fst Wong seat on regular bas tothe Third Woeld for recy ‘ling, cases ongoing devastation inthe more than ‘hnan word. Ths is both environmentally and ethical routing athe land they and the water ae polluted, casing hart the uma and the non man alike, leaving the’ planct with inevrable scars, What Aled Crosby ‘coined a “ecological impevasm” in 1986 now aes reletes fth ‘of neoimperiise. Crosby accounted forthe European itary expan sion int the new worlds, maintaining that ths wae the ubvions ret ‘ofthe technologie supeionty of rear ove relatively nascent fons ‘of weaponry, sich as spears. However, behind the diplacrnnt and replacement ofthe native people intemperate zone he found another ‘planation, which could only be atsbuted to blog imperialis, Father than mtary sues. The rationale Behind the peace ofa Placement and replacement wt no diferent fom exploaton, “The Plants on which Europeans ave depended for fd at er, aad the animals on which they depended fr food, Aber, pose, leather, bone, and manure” he wrote, “tend to romper in warm to-cool climates ‘with annual precipitation of $0 to 100 ceainecers” (6). Evidently the European str or powerhoerin general) wanted the most aan ‘aeons areas ofthe planet to be this. Thy inthe brondest sense, {Crosby's explanation points ot the esone why the economical dia ‘anaged epons othe world ze il safering fm poverty. Ths not happening because they areata dsadvancage de to geographical and climatic Causes, but because they have been ecologieal exploited snd Aepived of the resourees they once possessed. (The concep of nit resources” fuels also prem, and this wl be brit dscssed a 4 Tater pot). In Fedele’s documentary, the case otf fom eco ogi impenalie, but appears in tr twenty ist century frm. Te debris renting rom the technology produced nthe Fist World would

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