Extracting Beliefs, with Jacqueline Jenkins. This is a project that started in the summer of 2023 looking at the relationships between conservatism/religion, extractive industries, and ai/automation in some of Canada’s rural towns. All along the drive west-east, there are numerous signs that celebrate ‘freedom’, oil and gas and god. There are also many '“Fuck Trudeau” signs and pro-life billboards. With all of these politics on display to drivers-by, we ask how beliefs are formed — and extracted — in relation to the land and so-called ‘natural resources’ within mainly conservative christian communities, and how emergent technologies (ai and other forms of automation) play a role in how shaping these communities and their relationships to place.