Abstract
This image is taken from a larger photo-essay project entitled “The Afterlife of Extraction in the Coal Region,” published in Anthropocenes—Human, Inhuman, Posthuman. The work deploys psychogeography and photography to contemplate multigenerational trauma related to coal extraction in the Anthracite region of eastern Pennsylvania.The Anthracite region lives in the shadow of industrial collapse. Historically it has been inseparable, culturally and psychically, from exploitative, industrial coal extraction. The mines not only extracted coal but eviscerated the landscape and its population. My work is an investigation of what it means to live in the Anthracite region now, a “land of the living dead” and a region haunted by persistent material reminders of the industry in the absence of coal itself.
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