I’ve started writing my next book.
Author: Josh Lepawsky
Delete / Ignore: What Counts as ‘Waste’ and ‘Work’ in the New Global Politics of Disposability
This is a text version of a keynote talk I was invited to give at an international symposium at York University in April 2026. I have included images of my slides that accompanied my talk. […]
Experiments with ‘local AI’
Given my broader research interests and the non-consensual inclusion of my work into AI data training sets, I figure I have some license to play around with these tools to get a sense of what […]
A recipe for finding and mapping data centres
Geographers like me are really interested in understanding landscape changes. I’ve been doing some research on how the infrastructure of digital life (e.g., data centers or semiconductor fabs) is inscribed into real locations, what that […]
Defamiliarizing ‘Tech’
In our book, Discard Studies: wasting, systems, and power, Max Liborion and I write about defamiliarization and problem framing. in the context of the book we’re talking about how personal experience with garbage and waste […]
On Planned Obsolescence
Some months ago I was contacted by a journalist. Despite the interview, the story seems to have never run. Here’s what I was asked and how I responded. Journalist: Are products really designed to die […]
Network, Patchwork, Technate: geographical imaginations of the ‘tech right’
Is it possible to design a structure of government which will be stable and predictable? Hopefully, of course, stably and predictably benign? History affords no evidence of it. But history affords no evidence of semiconductors, […]
Precaution, PFAS, and Pattern Collapse
In 1854 in the Soho district of London England a cholera outbreak was killing people. You probably know this story. Its usually told with a physician named John Snow in the role of hero who […]
Chemicals and Coalitions
Chemicals are an issue over which a powerful coalition disagree.
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