Capital, the ‘Blue Economy’ and the last frontier on Earth: how nature matters in the emerging deep-sea mineral frontier, the case of polymetallic nodules in the Area
Deep-sea mining (DSM) is an emerging extractive industry often portrayed as part of a sustainable oceanic ‘blue economy’ despite being characterized by profound ecological uncertainty. This thesis critically examines the emergence focusing on the extraction of polymetallic nodules, by developing two arguments. First, it argues that DSM represents the ‘subsumption of nature’ by examining its biophy
