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Breathing Late Industrialism
Engaging science, technology, and society, v 6, pp 416-438
01 Jan 2020
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Abstract
Breakdown, trespass, seepage, degradation: this is late industrialism. Over the past decade, the term has become synonymous with collapse, describing everything from crumbling infrastructure to outmoded paradigms. But the "late" in "late industrial" carries radical potential, too. It points toward the possibility of another world taking shape within the wreckage as people retrofit broken systems, build flexible coalitions, and work creatively with time. In this collection, we train our eyes on these refashionings, asking how late industrial systems might be put to life-affirming work. Specifically, we track cases where breath, air, and atmosphere help inaugurate a "phase shift" (Choy and Zee 2015) from breakdown toward worlds otherwise. Breath has sentinel qualities: it can warn of trouble in the air. But it is also an animating force. Taking conceptual cues from this duality, contributors attend to late industrialism as it is sensed and transformed into something vital.
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- Title
- Breathing Late Industrialism
- Creators
- Chloe Ahmann - Cornell UniversityAlison Kenner - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Engaging science, technology, and society, v 6, pp 416-438
- Publisher
- Soc Social Studies Science
- Number of pages
- 23
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Politics
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000595162000001
- Other Identifier
- 991019168348804721
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