On Being A Generalist
I recently spent a few days traveling with my parents, and during the course of one of our meals, my father made a comment that has stuck in my head, as it’s something...
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A Vagina By Any Other Name…
Vagina: noun (plural vaginas or vaginae /-nē, -nī/) the muscular tube leading from the external genitals to the cervix of the uterus in women and most female mammals. Just when you think...
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....
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...
Genetic Codes, Cyborg Selves and the Future
“Human beings, like any other component or subsystem, must be localized in a system of architecture whose basic modes of operation are probabilistic, statistical. No objects, space, or bodies are sacred in themselves;...
Command, Control and Communications (C3)
Reflecting on this week’s reading by John May (Sensing: Preliminary Notes on the Emergence of Statistical-Mechanical Geographic Vision) and Peter Galison (War Against the Center), it is clear that the importance of...
