Portfolio Category: Readings
A list of all readings for the semester. Each set of readings below will require a brief response, posted to our shared reading response Google doc.
Readings responses are due on Monday at 8pm, for discussion in class on Tuesday.
February 1 & 3 – Off-the-grid imaginaries & ethnographies
February 8 & 10 – “Wildness” as the preservation of the world
February 15 – The grid as infrastructure: history of electrification
February 22 – The grid as episteme and cultural technic
March 1 – The grid as statecraft
March 8 – DIY infrastructures: art & design interventions
March 22 – Obfuscation & disappearance: counter-grid tactics
March 29 – Agriculture as counterculture: the new communalists go “back to the land”
April 5 – Withdrawal & refusal: radical feminist separatist communities
April 12 – Splintering infrastructures
April 19 – Urban informality: falling through the grid and the un-gridded
April 26 – Digital divides: racialized & indigenous margins of the grid
May 3 – The trouble with wilderness
