Tag: surveillance

Purity and Security: Towards a Cultural History of Plexiglass

Post author By Shannon Mattern
Post date December 2, 2020
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A member of the production crew cleans glass on stage which will serve as a barrier to protect the spread of COVID-19 as preparations take place for the vice presidential debate at the University of Utah, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2020, in Salt Lake City. The vice presidential debate between Vice President Mike Pence and Democratic vice presidential candidate, Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., is scheduled for Oct. 7. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

“Purity and Security: Towards a Cultural History of Plexiglas,” Places Journal (December 2020).

Tags architecture, Sensation, surveillance

How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables

edited with Mark Graham, Rob Kitchin, and Joe Shaw, How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables (Meatspace Press, 2019) [buy online, download for free, or read on Issuu]

All Eyes on the Border

“All Eyes on the Border,” Places Journal (September 2018).

Furnishing Intelligence

“Furnishing Intelligence,” Perspecta 51: Medium (Yale School of Architecture, 2018).

Databodies in Codespace (on precision medicine and data-driven urban planning)

“Databodies in Codespace” Places Journal (April 2018) [presentation slides here]

German translation: “Datenkörper in Coderäumen,” ARCH+ 236: Posthuman Architecture (2019)