Lagoonscapes

The Venice Journal of Environmental Humanities

We are Tectonic!

A Queer Geophysics for Intra-Solidarities and Resisting the Cloud Regime

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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.


Open access | Peer reviewed

Presentato: 01 Aprile 2025 | Accettato: 10 Luglio 2025 | Pubblicato 21 Luglio 2025 | Lingua: en

Keywords Infra-solutionism • Material Sovereignty • Carbon Removal • Big Tech • Racial Capitalism • Queer Geophysics

Copyright © 2025 Helen Pritchard, Femke Snelting, Seda Gürses, Jara Rocha, Miriyam Aouragh. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/LGSP/2785-2709/2025/01/008