This image informs understandings of the politics of toxics. It implies the enlivening of different kinds of political actions, which work at different scales and aim towards different outcomes. It suggests that the chemical toxification of waterbodies vitalises political activity and conflict, which might be productive of change.
I am interested in how collectives are described. A pride of lions, a crash of rhinos, a murder of crows.... This visualization untangles the multiple toxic environments at play some obvious, many hidden and unearthed through Oviya's critical insight. This visualization pushes us forward to think more critically, more imaginatively about how toxic environments inform and shape overlapping concerns in order to work, not for an imagined past, but to work for a complex, liveable future.