Discard studies offers an important concept for tech criticism: defamiliarization. The concept comes from the worlds of art and theatre and basically refers to some sort of device that helps make the familiar or taken […]
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Video Talk: scale, magnitude, and action
This is a short talk I gave for an invitation to the Prada Frames “Materials in Flux” symposium.
Sources and streams of electronic waste
Within one or two decades, the mass of electronic devices discarded by consumers could exceed 100 million tons annually. Yet, far more pollution and waste arise “upstream” during the mining for and manufacturing of electronics. […]
Electronic Planet Research Lab 