Week 11: Exploring communities of electromagnetic resistance and when infrastructures fail.
Read before class:
Stephen Graham, “When Infrastructures Fail,” Disrupted Cities, ed. Stephen Graham (Routledge, 2010), 1-26.
Donna Haraway, “Introduction” and “Chapter 2 Tentacular Thinking: Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene,” Staying with the trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Duke UP, 2016). pp.1-8, 30-57
Before class, read and engage with the following article / projects:
- Adam Gabbatt, “Cat on a Hot Satellite Dish: Elon Musk’s Starlink Antenna Hits Surprise Problem,” The Guardian, January 10, 2022, https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jan/10/starlink-satellite-dish-cats-elon-musk.
- Lisa Parks, Osprey-Cell Tower, Mixed Media, 2018, https://www.lisaparks.net/media-art-projects/osprey-cell-tower.
- sudmike, Shark Attack on Subcable.Wmv., 2010, 1 min., 21 sec., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ex7uTQf4bQ.