Audio reflections on the river that flows south toward Natchez and New Orleans, stirring up relations between chemistry and commodity, labor and industry, plantation and plantationocene.
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A river flows southward toward Natchez and New Orleans, stirring up relations between chemistry and commodity, labor and industry, plantation and plantationocene. Sounds captured during journeys in the autumn of 2019 visit upon the Little River model, an aestheticized simulation of research on continental water pathways for alternative riverscapes and futures. Scott Eldrick leads a journey into the past, through 300 million years of geological events. Clare Killman and Beau Henson describe their insurgent political practice for composing a consortium for chance and community solidarity. Jennifer Scappettone works on Superfund sites and writes scripts, collecting over a decade of research on toxicities, evacuations and archeologies. And a check in at the former industrial landscapes of Natchez, Mississippi, speaks of the declining American interior and its Black union communities, as well as the exchanges made between bodily and economic “health.”