I was honored to be invited to share a chapter from my forthcoming book, Ether/Ore: Archaeologies of Cities and Media, at the University of Amsterdam in May. This particular chapter, “Of Mud, Media, and the Metropolis: Aggregating Histories of Writing and Urbanization” will also appear this fall in a special “Geology of Media” special issue of Cultural Politics, edited by Jussi Parikka. You can find my slides here.