MINE/MINING

“This is mine” is an expression that performs relationality between three different elements. Moving through forces and dynamics of language: (a)“this” circumscribes a cellular recognition of the fixed existence of something as being else. (b)The verb “to be” conjugated to the third person singular opens a door for a thingness to the matter. “This” is recognized an existence of its own because something has been recognized as affective flux and therefore has had its presence conjugated through the verb being. The fall of the sentence comes under the shape of the possessiveness of the first person singular possessive pronoun. (c)“Mine” is the expression of an empty space. For something to be mine, there has to be space in “me” to fill with the thing that previously was else than me. I want to equally mention the homonym mine that describes the space of extraction of minerals. Whether it is lithium, coal, gold or mica, the matter is never in a mine until someone decides to displace or empty the space it exists in. Mine expresses a space of transfer. It is where resources are taken from their else-than-useful (read as: turned into transactional value) into the possibilities offered by the transformation of the material. This is also true for the “this” who exists in the realm of being, but is extracted from its state of existence. Philosophically speaking, “This” is the object in the sentence. Mine is a realization of the subject as something differentiated from the environment. “This” exists only because of the assumed existence of the me in “mine”.

For something to be mine, it probably had to be mined first. The realization of the “this” to become part of the realm of possessiveness is somehow linked to a past action of making mine. 

“This is Mine” describes the imposition of a binary dynamic on the potentiality of gatherings of matter. The assumption that other gatherings of matter do not have agency over the movement of being mined traverses the ontological perspective of coloniality and is the syntaxical and the existential realization of a subject-object relationship where the subject is the center and the object its realized desired-appendixes.