#ChemicalRegime SlowViolence

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Since there is a regime of imperceptibility that has been purposively assembled around synthetic molecular relations, efforts to render visible such relations by scientists, by bureaucrats , by community groups or by NGOS, are political acts. The Chemical Regime of Living then is less about harnessing life to profit , then it is about constitutions over making legible the distributions of molecular harm

Chemical Regime of Living by Michelle Murphy, pg 698

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1) Map : http://scorecard.goodguide.com/env-releases/us-map.tcl

Scorecard created from the Environmental Defense Fund, combines data from the U.S. EPA Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) with information on the potential health hazards of toxic chemicals. These reports account only for pollution from industrial facilities that reported to TRI in 2002 (the most recent year available).

2) Visual Depiction of Slow Violence/ Chemical Regime of Life, https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191002144257.htm

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