A future history of water: Strange thing full of water – Alberto Corsin-Jimenez’s comments
Andrea Ballestero (2019). A Future History of Water. Duke University Press. As I write these lines, my home city, Madrid, is covered in a…
Read MoreAndrea Ballestero (2019). A Future History of Water. Duke University Press. As I write these lines, my home city, Madrid, is covered in a…
Read MoreAndrea Ballestero,(2019). A Future History of Water. Duke University Press. I have an exercise I like to assign to my students, one that I…
Read MoreAs I finished reading Ballestero’s A Future History of Water, the world observed World Water Day 2021. Organized by the United Nations, it has…
Read MoreIt was already dark when I entered the small shop in the informal camp in rural Lebanon, where Khulud was waiting for customers. This…
Read MoreEthnographic film is blooming Ethnographic film, however loosely defined, is blooming. While to track and map the entire production of ethnographic film appears next-to…
Read MoreOn June 8, 2021, Amazon deployed an “opt-in” way for people to enable the company to expand its private network into communities, creating infrastructure…
Read MoreThere were three lanes at the checkpoint in Turpan—an old Uyghur-majority oasis city on the northern reaches of the Taklamakan Desert in Northwest China….
Read MoreThe fragility of our infrastructures and modes of living seldom become as ubiquitously palpable as they have with the current COVID-19 pandemic. The spread…
Read MoreAnticipating the failure of digital devices has become part of the fabric of everyday life in the digital world. With their fragile components and…
Read MorePublic and media discourses about housing estates are replete with highly problematic narratives of failure, riddled with classed and racialised tropes that cast estates,…
Read MoreSome miles outside a small Welsh town, off the main road, a long, flat structure rises from the undergrowth. Ivy and weed smother brick….
Read MoreWhere did afterlives fever come from? These reflections suggest a trajectory. Today, amid a lively eruption of usages, afterlife has moved away from longstanding…
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