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Jan 15: Introduction
Week 1: What do infrastructures have to do with climate change?
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Jan 27: Waste Studies
Week 2: The technological sublime, electronic waste, and climate.
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Feb 3: E-Waste (Field Trip)
Week 3: Off-site visit to an active e-waste recycling facility.
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Feb 10: Landscapes of Data
Week 4: Bunkers, Resilience, and Data Center Imaginaries.
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Feb 17: The Internet of Things
Week 5: The Internet of Things (IoT), Surveillance Capitalism, and The Military Industrial Complex.
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Feb 24: Infrastructure Tour (Field-Trip)
Week 6: Local fieldwork studying the media infrastructure of University City.
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Mar 3: Cable and Wireless
Week 7: Undersea Networks and Low Earth Orbit Satellites.
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Mar 10: Spring Break
Week 8: No class – Midterm assignments Midterm submission deadline: Sunday, March 16, 2025, 11:59 pm EST on Canvas
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Mar 17: Listening to the Wave
Week 9: Build your own electromagnetic listening device (workshop)
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Mar 24: Electromagnetic Fields
Week 10: Hertzian space, radio waves, frequencies, and the body-energetic.
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Mar 31: Failure and Intervention
Week 11: Exploring communities of electromagnetic resistance and when infrastructures fail.
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Apr 7: Extractivism
Week 12: The geology of media, media and decoloniality, mining and minerality.
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Apr 14: Scaling Future Data Imaginaries
Week 13: Biomedia, DNA as data, seed vaults, and more-than-human worlds.
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Apr 21: Alternatives to Apocalypse
Week 14: Final Presentation Workshop
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Apr 28: Final Presentations
Week 15: Presentations of final projects