ORCID
- Helen Pritchard: 0000-0002-6107-5060
Abstract
This paper analyses how Big Tech and global consultancy firms are asserting control over carbon removal certification and governance through infrastructure solutions and technical standards. We argue that defining gaps in the underground constitutes a global takeover of material sovereignty, encompassing both knowledge and geological formations. We unearth Big Tech’s strategies of infra-solutionism to demonstrate, drawing on the work of inhuman geographer Kathryn Yusoff, how this takeover reinforces geological grammars and essentialises racialised and sexualised categories that disconnect us from the Earth. Drawing on queer poetry together with work of Marxist agronomist Amílcal Cabral we advocate for resistance to dominant geopower and form transnational solidarities against the cloud regime.
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Publication Date
2025-07-21
Publication Title
Lagoonscapes
Volume
5
Issue
1
ISSN
2785-2709
Acceptance Date
2025-07-10
Deposit Date
2026-04-28
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
First Page
179
Last Page
204
Recommended Citation
Pritchard, H., Snelting, F., Gürses, S., Rocha, J., & Aouragh, M. (2025) 'We are Tectonic! A Queer Geophysics for Intra-Solidarities and Resisting the Cloud Regime', Lagoonscapes, 5(1), pp. 179-204. Available at: 10.30687/lgsp/2785-2709/2025/01/008
