Explosivity

""Javier Arbona-Homar takes us through landscapes shaped by violent explosions, whose aftermath rips time and space alike. Through gripping geostories rooted in the San Francisco Bay Area, he unearths the unyielding traces of racial capitalism and militarization, challenging us to think about how we remember, forget, and live with destruction. Written with the precision of a geographer and the soul of a radical artist, Explosivity is a vital guide to confronting the latent violence embedded in our environments.""--Trevor Paglen, MacArthur Fellow, artist, and author ""Explosivity blasts open how we define harm, exposing the systemic erasure of minor histories and the violent re-inscription of memory in 'afterblast' landscapes. Organizing an unruly spatial archive of sites bearing repression and radical response, Javier Arbona-Homar experiments with decolonial practices of sensing explosivity and its consequences to defy cultural memoricide, vindicate the dead from the continuing afterlife of racial punishment and economic extraction, and create copresence and care for the scattered remains all around us.""--Shiloh Krupar, author of Hot Spotter's Report: Military Fables of Toxic Waste