Reflecting on May Day – Occupy Needs New Tactics
So after a day of marching, rallies, speakers and events here in NYC, what did the May 1 General Strike change? That’s the question that’s been on my mind since I went to...
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Logistics, Surveillance and New Modalities of Visualization: From RFID to Google Earth
A Brave New World doesn’t really even begin to capture it all… There has been a slow but stead growth in the logistics of surveillance, whether that be of people or of objects....
Welcome to the Anthropocene: Disaster Time
As I’ve discussed in an earlier post, the Anthropocene is a concept coined a little over a decade ago by scientists to describe the massive scale of changes happening to the Earth’s biosphere...
Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Reality, Sustainability, Visuality
In this week we turn to the relationship between perception and attention, thinking through some of the ideas of Roland Bartes in Camera Obscura and Cameron Tonkinwise and Karen Pinkus’ Want Not: A...
It’s a Mad, Mad World!
“I do not believe that this legislation changes the scientific standards that are taught in our schools or the curriculum that is used by our teachers.” –TN Governor Bill Haslam on the...
A Contagion of Fear and An Education in Terrorism
“A contagion of fear has infected campus, and the successive, endless nature of bomb threat-related notifications and evacuations have amplified the hysteria, with the new security measures only lending credence to the fears…students...
