Toilet: Public Restrooms and the Politics of Sharing (NYU Series in Social and Cultural Analysis Book 1)
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Toilet: Public Restrooms and the Politics of Sharing (NYU Series in Social and Cultural Analysis Book 1)
Sewage isn’t the stuff of epic poems, but it is a test of a well-functioning state.
Yuval Noah Harari • Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Barnes reports that Egyptian farmers in the Nile Valley maintain irrigation ditches not just to keep the water flowing, but also to “sustain communal ties with other farmers.” 20 Similar protocols prevail in Nikhil Anand’s Hydraulic City, in which the anthropologist shows how the maintenance of water infrastructures binds residents, plumbers, engin... See more
Places Journal • Maintenance and Care
It also poses the question of whether current forms of electronic separation and perceptual management are part of conditions that would inhibit or deflect the processes Sartre details.
Jonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
This is not to say that concerns over environmental pollution are not justified—like filth theory, toxicity theory is anchored in legitimate dangers—but that the way we think about toxicity bears some resemblance to the way we once thought about filth. Both theories allow their subscribers to maintain a sense of control over their own health by pur
... See moreEula Biss • On Immunity: An Inoculation
Already, the lived reality of big data is suffused with a kind of surveillant anxiety — the fear that all the data we are shedding every day is too revealing of our intimate selves but may also misrepresent us. Like a fluorescent light in a dark corridor, it can both show too much and not enough. Anxiety, as Sianne Ngai has written, has a temporali
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