How Toxic Infrastructure Threatens Life in the Ports of Los Angeles and Beyond
272 pages | © 2023
Paper List Price $30.00 | ISBN: 9780226819716 | 2023
“The ports have not eliminated nature or automated away the human presence. Instead, they warp and engulf these lives. . . . Wherever you look, there is capital and its infrastructures, a ghastly Sublime. . . . Instead of the Alps, a dense network of machines and money. . . . A leitmotif in Oil Beach is the way that capitalism brutally sorts out life, marking some people for immense wealth and others for homelessness or cancer, tagging certain nonhuman species as economically useful or aesthetically pleasing while consigning others to death via pollution and climate change. Our geographies—material or imaginative—are never just.”—Public Books
