The Ambix Special Issue “Gold and Mercury: Amalgamated Histories in Chemistry, Culture, and Environment” is now available, featuring essays by Active Matter members Bilak and Oakley among others. This publication serves as a manifesto of many of the guiding interests and principles of Active Matter, and we congratulate all who contributed to making this publication possible.
Edited by Dr. Donna Bilak
Ambix: The Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry 70:1 (2023)
Contents:
- Donna Bilak, “Introduction: Living Then and Now with Gold and Mercury,” 1–6
- Vincenzo Carlotta & Matteo Martelli, “Metals as Living Bodies. Founts of Mercury, Amalgams, and Chrysocolla,” 7–30
- Donna Bilak & George Vrtis, “Environmental Alchemy: Mercury-Gold Amalgamation Mining and the Transformation of the Earth,” 31–53
- Sebastián Rubiano-Galvis, Jimena Diaz Leiva & Ruth Goldstein, “Amalgamated Histories: Tracing Quicksilver’s Legacy Through Environmental and Political Bodies in Andean and Amazonian Gold Mining,” 54–76
- Peter Oakley, “Making Mercury’s Histories: Mercury in Gold Mining’s Past and Present,” 77–98
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