Making Sense of Indeterminate Representations of Land in Contemporary Markets Unavailable

With the advancement of computing, representations of Land in contemporary markets are becoming increasingly indeterminate. Citing two examples from Australia, the author identifies the manipulation of system-specific measurements of space and time as the methodological process behind these changing representations while examining their close relationship to the settler colonial project. They argue that a new conceptual formulation is required to de-standardize how markets perceive Land to situate potential sites of value extraction and their calculi and advance movements to reclaim space and time amidst changing digital landscapes.