Extraction is Basically Colonialism | Riar Rizaldi

What if your smartphone is a product of colonialism and hidden slavery? 📱⛓️
In this episode we talk with Riar Rizaldi — an Indonesian artist and filmmaker who turns modern labor and ecology problems into a gripping visual horror. Riar is convinced: technology is like a hammer. It can help you drive a nail, but it can also kill.

What’s inside this interview:
Extraction = Colonialism. Why the mining of metals for your gadgets in Indonesia is the same exploitation we saw 500 years ago.

Corporate Mental Hell. Why working at Samsung can be more dangerous than physical labor and how industry giants turn people into "objects".

Horror as Methodology. Using the aesthetics of old-school horror and Sci-Fi to address reality and historical traumas.

Riar doesn't just record problems; he works like an anthropologist, shifting our worldview to show the real people and unhealed wounds of history behind every device.