hometown 4.5.18+hometown-1.2.1STS, professor in Comm program
(USC Annenberg, USA)
Topics span: politics of technology, infrastructure, envirotech, DIY and media activism
my regular stream of regular hollering (& more interaction) is at @inquiline@assemblag.es
"personal" in that workplace does not endorse & i speak for no org's
header: oil extraction, palm trees
profile: vintage postcard of California oil field at night (cropped)
"From the petroleum used to make film stock to the carbon and tungsten needed for studio lights and theater projectors... the film industry rose alongside the oil and aeronautics industries that transformed SoCal"
(HT a student)
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-cinema-of-extractions/9780231213585/
Special issue of Environment and Planning C on “Scaled ethnographies of toxic flows”
You can thank Warwick Anderson for this passage (...) about uncanny turds (Spectacles of Waste, ch 4)
"The Mobilities of Ships... unexplored waters and diverse case studies, including pirate ships, naval vessels and luxury yachts. The Mobilities of Ships offers a rich insight into the world of shipping mobilities past and present."
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781315695938/mobilities-ships-anyaa-anim-addo-william-hasty-kimberley-peters
This book looks fascinating, especially if you are interested in incineration, which I currently am
"In 1986 the Khian Sea, carrying 1000s of tons of incinerator ash from Philadelphia, began a 2-yr journey, roaming the world's oceans in search of a dumping ground"
1897 Detroit Free Press cartoon of a California black bear making off with a pig in the moonlight while the farmer looks on, shaking his fist
(this *is* a research post but it may take me a decade to get around to the writing, if I do)
"Beaches and ports are among the twentieth century’s most significant and polyvalent cultural geographies. The fates of these spaces sharply diverge, however, as the rise and consolidation of the leisure beach coincides with the cultural forgetting of ports."
https://read.dukeupress.edu/comparative-literature/article/73/2/131/173462/Beaches-and-Ports
"Boyer encourages us to look beyond this nostalgia for petro-fueled Keynesianism, to see the infrastructural turn instead as part of the wider anti-anthropocentric turn in the human sciences. He takes the turn to infrastructure as a sign “that we are conceptually re-arming ourselves for the struggle against the #Anthropocene and the #modernity that made it"
-Appel, Anand, and Gupta, Intro to The Promise of #Infrastructure
"The South Asian coast line, after all, is today a site of aggressive port development even as scientists project it to be an early victim of the rising sea. Aspirations for global supremacy intensify the push for ports across South Asia. They also enmesh these ports in complex and changing international relations"
