We are seeking additional panelists for ASEH 2018 in Riverside, CA., whose research fits within a broadly defined examination of the relationship between abstraction, extraction, and commodification. Historical examples of this relationship may be overt, like that of bottled “pure” spring water, essentially an abstraction of groundwater pumped from the earth, packaged, transported, and sold as a commodity. Other examples are less obvious, like the extraction and re-commodification of garbage, an act that is reliant upon abstract ideas of recycling as an extension of natural processes.