The heightening of the ecological crisis in recent decades has not only reshaped the global political agenda but has also triggered new terrestrial vocabularies aiming to address the entanglements between human and non-human agencies. The recent “turn towards the Earth” (Latour and Weibel 2020) demands shifting the globalized gaze towards local engagements with the soil and the different communitary and multispecies forms to inhabit and transform it. 

Geo-semantics encompasses a series of scholarly encounters and collaborations that aim to develop a new critical apparatus addressing the geological aesthetics in  the Global South. We are concerned with dynamizing collective and multimedia archives that connect the critical zone’s cross-disciplinary approach with the interwoven political, social, and embodied experiences in different areas: How are the arts mediating the fossil subjectivities of the Capitalocene? What are the implications of the geological turn in contexts of colonialism, intense extractivism, and necropolitics?