Call for Papers: The Global South 7.2 (Spring 2014) Theme: “The Aesthetics of Dislocation” Guest Editor: Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra For this issue, the editors invite papers that explore the relationship between aesthetics and place: how does the relationship to place condition aesthetic practice, and how does a change of place alter that practice? We are particularly […]
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By Max Liboiron. “When I got to get the stuff in the bucket, first I go down the far left edge of the pile, dump it in. Then I go down the far right side of the pile, dump it in. Then I go down the middle. So everything fits in the back of the […]
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Workshop “Out of culture: Society through its wastes” Frédéric Joulian (EHESS), Agnès Jeanjean (Univ. de Nice) Centre Norbert Elias EHESS, Centre Vieille Charité, 2 rue de la Charité, Marseille salle de réunion 3rd floor If one considers the phenomenon of culture in all its acceptions, and indeed contradictions (a set of objects and practices versus […]
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By Max Liboiron. Measurements are never mere faithful representations of nature, but have social and political origins and ramifications. In representational theory, measurement is “the correlation of numbers with entities that are not numbers,” a process of transformation, translation, and even interpretation at the level of sampling and gathering data. What is selected for measurement and what is […]
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PICKING UP On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City TUESDAY, APRIL 23 4:00 – 6:00 MANHATTAN 3 SANITATION GARAGE South Street Viaduct, Pier 36 (on the East River about half a mile north of the Manhattan Bridge; entrance is under the FDR Drive between Montgomery St and […]
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Basurama (trash-o-rama), a non profit organization based in Spain, is preparing a public waste audit for MIT’s Media Lab Festival on April 20th. Their unique point of intervention that goes above and beyond a regular waste audit and the goal of quantification and classification of waste, is how to represent two tons of waste. Basurama […]
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In this short video found on the Boston University website, Professor Zaman explains how he and his students use discards to save lives. He is driven by a desire to connect knowledge to real-world solutions for those in developing countries. As part of a classroom project, engineering students at BU sought to improve conditions for […]
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Postgraduate Workshop & Conference: Media Archaeology and Technological Debris Thursday, June 20 – Friday, June 21, 2013, Goldsmiths, University of London This workshop aims to bring academics and PhD students together to discuss emerging research projects on the field of media studies. It means to combine the thriving approach of media archaeology with the growing […]
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By Zoltana Domotor, from If I was a Hoarder: On December 1, 2012 the board of trustees of the American Psychiatric Association approved the final diagnostic criteria for the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, due to be published in May 2013. Among the diagnoses new to the fifth edition of the manual […]
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Antipode, the Journal of Radical Geography, has recently published Jesse Goldstein’s Terra Economica: Waste and the Production of Enclosed Nature. Goldstein traces the historical flip of “wastelands” as common, open fields that were productive and essential to the well being of communities, to spaces seen as underutilized resources going to waste following the English enclosure […]
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