1,725,612 research outputs found
Ep. #202 - Shannon Mattern
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of podcasts conducted by the Cultures of Energy at Rice University. Cultures of Energy brings writers, artists and scholars together to talk, think and feel their way into the Anthropocene. We cover serious issues like climate change, species extinction and energy transition. But we also try to confront seemingly huge and insurmountable problems with insight, creativity and laughter.Cymene and Dominic talk about the vine that’s taking over their house and then (12:30) we welcome the New School’s magnificent Shannon Mattern to the podcast We discuss her new book A City is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences (Princeton UP, 2021) which explores the limits of computational models for understanding knowledge in urban contexts. We begin with the deep history of urban intelligence and the role of cybernetics in offering computation as a universal analogy. We talk about other venerable tropes too, like the city as graft and the city as tree. We cover the limits of datafication to understand urban life. Does Shannon have a perfect urban dashboard model in mind? How much is big tech driving dashboardization and how much the charisma of universal representations? We talk failure and function, access as a tech panacea, smart cities, the politics of shade, libraries and kindred examples of “other urban intelligences.” Finally, we turn to the magic of Shannon’s Twitter work and how it informs her teaching. Enjoy
Evans and Mattern processing documents
No full textJoanne Mattern looks at a document that Susan Evans, an intern at the state archives, is processing at a table
Joanne Mattern near stairs
No full textJoanne Mattern, a state archive employee, walks toward a set of stairs in the Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs building (today the Delaware Public Archives)
Haase and Mattern with document for exhibit
No full textJoanne Mattern and Bruce Haase hold up a document they have prepared to place in a display case for an exhibit about the ratification of the United States Constitution. Mattern looks toward the camera
G. Mattern.- Das Seuergeheimis.
No full textG. Mattern.- Das Seuergeheimis.. In: Revue internationale de droit comparé. Vol. 5 N°4, Octobre-décembre 1953. p. 774
Mattern and Carignan talking with workshop attendees
No full textDoris Carignan and Joanne Mattern talk with a group of people at a Delaware Historical Societies workshop. Carignan and Mattern stand near tables with stacks of paper on it
Mattern at McClearnen farewell
No full textThis negative shows a group of guests at Jack McClearnen's farewell party at the Dover C. C. Joanne Mattern is visible in the foreground
Mattern speaking at workshop
No full textThis color negative shows state archive employee Joanne Mattern speaking at a workshop in the research room. She is standing with her back toward the camera
- …
