Geotechnics
Direct intervention into the earth’s surface through technology – the coupling of the planet with technological objects – could be phrased as ‘geotechnical,’ a word I thought I invented – until I...
View ArticleCultivating the Map
[Image: “Cultivating the Map” by Danny Wills]. For his final thesis project at the endangered Cooper Union, Danny Wills explored how survey instruments, cartographic tools, and architecture might work...
View ArticleWalker Lane Redux
It’s been an interesting few days here in Southern California, with several large earthquakes and an ensuing aftershock sequence out in the desert near Ridgecrest. Ridgecrest, of course, is at the very...
View ArticleTerrestrial Oceanica
I’m grateful for two recent opportunities to publish op-eds, one for the Los Angeles Times back in May and the other just this morning in the New York Times. Both look at seismic activity and its...
View ArticleClass Action
[Image: Still from the end of Garbage, Gangsters and Greed.] I have a long new feature up at The Guardian this weekend that tells the story of an English teacher at Middletown High School, in upstate...
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