Andrea Ballestero, "A Future History of Water" (Duke UP, 2019)
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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The Cabinet of Curiosities
The book is a small collection of devices, four devices. But when i was thinking about how do these things come together, the the image that came to mind that helped organize this is the image of the wunder camer ah, right? And so in a certain way, my book is another iteration of that. Wherh, i'm trying to say it's not about replicating the imperial logic of putting things,. but what if we turn that form inside out and used it as away to examine the knowledge and political technologies that are a shaping the world in the present? If we turn that approach in that direction, what do we end up with? The result is is the book its
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