"it would be hard to find a single discipline in the “social sciences” that wasn’t at least in some way helped along by Ford money, from international studies (funded CENIS at MIT) and area studies ($270 million to thirty-four universities for area and language studies from 1953—1966),13 urban economics,14 and GIS (supported the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Laboratory of Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis)" (many echoes of Jen Light's work here!) https://kevinrogan.substack.com/p/urban-studies-for-conspiracy-theorists?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=484115&post_id=90905438&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email
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Shannon Mattern
@shannonmattern@saturation.social
mastodon 4.5.18faculty, media studies + art history @penn (formerly @thenewschool). architecture, archives, cities, infrastructure, libraries, maps, sound++
btw philadelphia + nyc
imgs: karel martens; aurelian debat
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Laura Kurgan told me about the Center for Art, Research and Alliances, which opened just two months ago on W 13th St — what a lovely space! Current exhibition: Neo Muyanga: A Mass of Cyborgs https://cara-nyc.org/pages/about
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And the alphabetical flow continues into my office on the 3rd floor (pictured here). Those flat-file drawers on the left-hand size contain most of my zines, artists' newspapers, maps, etc. Bottom middle is graphic novels; bottom right is design reference :)
I don't yet have an office on-campus, but when I do, I can unbox all my books on pedagogy, method, and higher ed; my canonical theory texts, etc. :) ...
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Oh, and here's my Zotero catalog, which doesn't yet include my work office books or any of my zines + maps https://www.zotero.org/shannon_mattern/library
I hope this is helpful!
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@TeamMidwest@glammr.us @jessamyn@glammr.us We're still moving in, so things are still moving around -- but I decided to keep all my heavy, oversized art books + atlases in sturdy metal shelves on the ground floor: https://www.instagram.com/p/CqE3nTWO9dT/
Non-fiction is organized alphabetically by author's last name on the second floor (most Philly row houses have a "den" on the second floor): https://www.instagram.com/p/CqBtCbrOmUO/
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@bookish@historians.social I don’t know what I was talking about! 🤷♀️😜
@bookish@historians.social Wow -- look at that!! Belated congratulatiojns :)