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.
Mél Hogan’s Data fix podcast
Mél Hogan (@mel_hogan@mstdn.ca) is a professor of film and media studies who also produces the The Data Fix podcast. The podcast is a project arising from something perhaps ineffable that broke during the COVID pandemic. […]
Pollution release and transfer data
I have a paper published called, “Mapping chemical discardscapes of electronics production” (it’s free to download). It’s about pinpointing what researchers can learn about the electronics sector and the chemicals that are released during the […]
Electronic Planet Research Lab 