CI Studies Bibliography – Waste, Garbage, and Sewage

Laser, Stefan, Anne Pasek, Estrid Sørensen, Mél Hogan, Mace Ojala, Jens Fehrenbacher, Maximilian Gregor Hepach, Leman Çelik, and Koushik Ravi Kumar. “The Environmental Footprint of Social Media Hosting: Tinkering with Mastodon.” European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) (blog), 2022. https://www.easst.net/article/the-environmental-footprint-of-social-media-hosting-tinkering-with-mastodon/. Cite

Devine, Kyle, and Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier, eds. Audible Infrastructures: Music, Sound, Media. New York, New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Cite

Bonnett, Alastair. “Beyond the Map: Spikescapes and Wild Strawberries.” Places Journal, 2018. https://doi.org/10.22269/180410. Cite

Leker, Hannah Gordon, and Jacqueline MacDonald Gibson. “Relationship between Race and Community Water and Sewer Service in North Carolina, USA.” PLOS ONE 13, no. 3 (2018): e0193225. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0193225. Cite

Edwards, Paul N. “The Mechanics of Invisibility: On Habit and Routine as Elements of Infrastructure.” In Infrastructure Space, 2017. Berlin: Ruby Press, 2017. http://pne.people.si.umich.edu/PDF/Edwards%202017%20Mechanics%20of%20Invisibility.pdf. Cite

Offenhuber, Dietmar. Waste Is Information: Infrastructure Legibility and Governance. Infrastructures. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2017. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/waste-information. Cite

Scappettone, Jennifer. The Republic of Exit 43: Outtakes & Scores from an Archaeology and Pop-up Opera of the Corporate Dump. Berkeley, CA: Atelos, 2016. https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/Default.aspx?bookid=9781891190407. Cite

Rossiter, Ned. Software, Infrastructure, Labor: A Media Theory of Logistical Nightmares. New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2016. https://www.routledge.com/Software-Infrastructure-Labor-A-Media-Theory-of-Logistical-Nightmares/Rossiter/p/book/9780415843058. Cite

Tekin, Latife. Berji Kristin: Tales from the Garbage Hills. Translated by Ruth Christie and Saliha Paker. London: Marion Boyars, 2015. Cite

Parikka, Jussi. A Geology of Media. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015. https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/a-geology-of-media. Cite

Ty, Michelle. “Trash and the Ends of Infrastructure.” MSF Modern Fiction Studies 61, no. 4 (2015): 606–30. https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2015.0053. Cite

Lorenz, Johnny. “Water, Waste, and a ‘Greater Communion’: Rubem Fonseca’s ‘The Art of Walking in the Streets of Rio de Janeiro.’” MSF Modern Fiction Studies 61, no. 4 (2015): 652–68. https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2015.0054. Cite

Miller, Toby. “The Art of Waste: Contemporary Culture and Unsustainable Energy Use.” In Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructures, 137–56. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2015. Cite

Burtynsky, Edward, and Michael Mitchell, eds. Burtynsky: Oil. 3. ed. Göttingen: Steidl/Corcoran, 2014. Cite

Gordillo, Gastón. Rubble: The Afterlife of Destruction. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014. Cite

Chalfin, Brenda. “Public Things, Excremental Politics, and the Infrastructure of Bare Life in Ghana’s City of Tema: Public Things.” American Ethnologist 41, no. 1 (2014): 92–109. https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.12062. Cite

Zantingh, Matthew. “When Things Act Up: Thing Theory, Actor-Network Theory, and Toxic Discourse in Rita Wong’s Poetry.” Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 20, no. 3 (2013): 622–46. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44087266. Cite

Penner, Barbara. Bathroom. Objekt Series. London: Reaktion Books, 2013. Cite

Ezban, Michael. “The Trash Heap of History.” Places Journal, 2012. https://doi.org/10.22269/120501. Cite

Egyedi, Tineke M., and Donna C. Mehos, eds. Inverse Infrastructures: Disrupting Networks from Below. Cheltenham, UK ; Northhampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2012. Cite

Parikka, Jussi, ed. Medianatures: The Materiality of Information Technology and Electronic Waste. Living Books About Life. Open Humanities Press, 2011. http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/Medianatures. Cite

Parikka, Jussi. “Introduction: The Materiality of Media and Waste.” In Medianatures: The Materiality of Information Technology and Electronic Waste. Living Books About Life. Open Humanities Press, 2011. http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/Electronic_waste/Introduction. Cite

Piper, Karen. “Dreams, Dust and Birds: The Trashing of Owens Lake.” Places Journal, 2011. https://doi.org/10.22269/110124. Cite

Gabrys, Jennifer. Digital Rubbish: A Natural History of Electronics. Ann: University of Michigan Press, 2011. https://doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/dcbooks.9380304.0001.001. Cite

Butts, Rachel, and Stephen Gasteyer. “More Cost per Drop: Water Rates, Structural Inequality, and Race in the United States: The Case of Michigan.” Environmental Practice 13, no. 4 (2011): 386–95. http://www.academia.edu/2646873/More_Cost_per_Drop_Water_Rates_Structural_Inequality_and_Race_in_the_United_States_The_Case_of_Michigan. Cite

Pinto, Violet N. “E-Waste Hazard: The Impending Challenge.” In Medianatures: The Materiality of Information Technology and Electronic Waste. Living Books About Life. Open Humanities Press, 2011. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2796756/. Cite

Mann, Paho, and Nancy Levinson. “The Art of Solid Waste.” Places Journal, 2010. https://doi.org/10.22269/100422. Cite

Molotch, Harvey Luskin, and Laura Norén, eds. Toilet: Public Restrooms and the Politics of Sharing. NYU Series in Social and Cultural Analysis. New York: New York University Press, 2010. https://muse.jhu.edu/book/10597. Cite

Anderson, Warwick. “Crap on the Map, or Postcolonial Waste.” Postcolonial Studies 13, no. 2 (2010): 169–78. https://doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2010.496436. Cite

Feilhauer, Matthias, and Soenke Zehle, eds. Ethics of Waste in the Information Society (Special Issue of International Review of Information Ethics). No. 11. Vol. 11. International Review of Information Ethics (IRIE), 2009. Cite

Hertz, Garnet. “Dead Media Research Lab.” In Medianatures: The Materiality of Information Technology and Electronic Waste. Living Books About Life. Open Humanities Press, 2009. http://www.conceptlab.com/deadmedia/. Cite

Wilson, Sacoby M., Christopher D. Heaney, John Cooper, and Omega Wilson. “Built Environment Issues in Unserved and Underserved African-American Neighborhoods in North Carolina.” Environmental Justice 1, no. 2 (2008): 63–72. https://doi.org/10.1089/env.2008.0509. Cite

Wong, Rita. “Sort by Day, Burn by Night/Transcrypt.” Amerasia Journal 33, no. 2 (2007): 141–42. https://doi.org/10.17953/amer.33.2.e1314218u234r7u4. Cite

Bennett, Jane. “The Force of Things: Steps toward an Ecology of Matter.” Political Theory 32, no. 3 (2004): 347–72. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4148158. Cite

Koolhaas, Rem. “Junkspace.” October 100, no. Spring 2002 (2002): 175–90. http://www.jstor.org/stable/779098. Cite

Kaika, Maria, and Erik Swyngedouw. “Fetishizing the Modern City: The Phantasmagoria of Urban Technological Networks.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 24, no. 1 (2000): 120–38. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.00239. Cite

National Research Council. Infrastructure for the 21st Century: Framework for a Research Age. Washington: National Academies Press, 1987. http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=798. Cite