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Shannon Mattern
@shannonmattern.bsky.social
director of creative research @ the metro ny library council; faculty @ a 🫣 conglomerate (2004-22: @thenewschool) architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++ nyc + philly wordsinspace.net
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These spaces became a fascination in my field a decade+ ago, spawning so many photo essays + student documentaries :)

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"Even when I tried to make a meaningful impact within [the the tech industry], like building a design ethics framework or joining the union, it never felt radical enough because I was still participating in an industry that manipulated my well-intentioned contributions for profit."

Growing beyond the computer ⚘
Growing beyond the computer ⚘

Cortney Cassidy on leaving her tech job to become a full-time gardener.

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Something I've been talking to friends about is 45's rhetoric about 'not needing more votes and having all the votes he needs' and telling people that what's needed is to "protect the votes" also sets up post-election violence. It's a signal to the shock troops.

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That "so much more" implicitly includes "hedge funds" :)

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Totally my jam :)

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Oh, yes - thank you!

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No doubt! They've trained slime molds to do it!

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Lots of good resources about the Warburg in our old Data, Archive, Infrastructure class - esp in the supplemental stuff at the bottom of the page!

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"The expansion has also enabled the full reinstatement of Warburg’s unique cataloguing system, with 4 floors ea dedicated to Image, Word, Orientation + Action – 'uniting the various branches of the history of human civilisation,'... breaking culture free from the confines of... disciplinary silos.

Occult? Try upstairs! Inside the world’s weirdest library, now open to the public
Occult? Try upstairs! Inside the world’s weirdest library, now open to the public

It has folders marked ‘Grasping the victim’s head’ and now – after a £15m revamp and some help from Albert Einstein and the patron saint of the internet – the extraordinary Warburg Institute is lettin...

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Shannon Mattern
@shannonmattern.bsky.social
director of creative research @ the metro ny library council; faculty @ a 🫣 conglomerate (2004-22: @thenewschool) architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++ nyc + philly wordsinspace.net
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