Books:
Mona's new book?
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- Apr 2026
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AREA THREE - Geologies and Geographies of Media
Could be worth checking out the chapters in Sustainable Media: Critical Approaches to Media and Environment edited by Janet Walker and Nicole Starosielski, as I understand it's specifically on the tension between anti-extraction media and the extractive nature of media infrastructures
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AREA TWO - Territory, Statehood and The Nation: US Filmmaking and Power
Either all of The Third Eye, Race, Cinema, and Ethnographic Spectacle by Fatimah Tobing Rony or her chapter on Give me My Father's Body (which I'm having trouble finding forgive me) would be great here with your engagement with Indigenous Alaskan narratives. EDIT: Double checked it, she has a great chapter on Nanook in that book too.
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Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong. “The Enduring Ephemeral, or the Future Is a Memory.”
A really clever intervention for this list
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Bazin, André, and Hugh Gray. “The Ontology of the Photographic Image.”
How much does this open up the idea of the photographic image (including the moving image) as an archive in itself? How much are you engaging with this kind of stuff?
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Benjamin, Walter. Illuminations: Essays and Reflections. Edited by Hannah Arendt. Translated by Harry Zohn. With Leon Wieseltier. Schocken Books, 2012.
The whole collection feels a little funny here
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Area 1: Urban Infrastructure and the Body
Curious if any chapters from Max Liboiron's Polution is Colonialism would fit here
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Area 3: Asia as Method, Postcolonial Asian Media, and Subaltern Studies
Curious as to why the queer methodology list serves a methodological intervention into this list but not the other way around
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a queer positionality, i.e., to critically engage with, challenge, and unsettle a heteronormative vision of media infrastructure studies.
Great framing of the method
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It pays attention to elemental media, environmental media and their interconnection with urban space.
I believe you here but I'd love a sentence explaining some of these connections
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Corbin, Alain. The Foul and the Fragrant: Odor and the French Social Imagination
Hell yeah
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Articles
Can't recommend enough "The Future in Ruins: Thoughts on the Temporality of Infrastructure" by Akhil Gupta in The Promise of Infrastructure, will be really useful to you I think
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Articles
A lot of the stuff on this list is a little old. I feel like Cass might have some good insights for more recent work on algorithmic advertising
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Metz, Christian. “The Imaginary Signifier: Psychoanalysis and the Cinema.”
A really interesting text you could use to think through the psychological differences between the aggragated and individualized audience
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he shift from mass cinema exhibition, where audiences were aggregated, to contemporary digital and individualized spectatorship
Really cool framing
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Articles
I think we read Rey Chow's "Listening after 'Acousmaticity'" in Greg's Sound class which talked about the inner voice operating as a kind of "primitive" figure, could be a good add here
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Drawing on the insight that cinema sustains an illusion in which sound appears to originate from the image while remaining materially independent of it, the texts explore how this separation enables voice to function as naturalised, authoritative, and placeless, even as it is historically, technologically, and geopolitically situated.
Do you situate this before the introduction of sound in the cinema? What kinds of acousmatic vocal technologies exist before (I'm thinking of the Pythagoras we learned in Greg's Sound class)
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Geoghegan, Bernard Dionysius. Code: From Information Theory to French Theory. Sign, Storage, Transmission. Duke University Press, 2023
Confused by this going on this list and not the prior one
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an extension of geography from the ground to the air, tethering the atmospheric to the terrestrial
What kinds of epistemic differences emerge from the addition of the z axis?
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attend to the colonial natures of the American deserts
Both "attend to" and "natures" are a little vague, would love to know what you specifically mean here
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leakiness
More on this!!
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Articles/Chapters
Could be worth checking out some of the chapters in Saturation: An Elemental Politics which was edited by Melody. The one I've read is Hydromedia: From Water Literacy to the Ethics of Saturation by Joanna Zylinska which could work here but looking through the TOC I think there's a decent amount you could be interested in
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Left: Still from Imperial Irrigation (Lukas Marxt, 2020) Right: The optical system (combined telescope and LIDAR) at the Starfire Optical Range on Kirtland Air Force Base. Image from wikimedia commons.
The stills are a really clever way to find another method of communicating the themes and scope of the lists...I might steal it from you
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