Shannon Mattern
Columnist
Shannon Mattern is a columnist for Places. She is a professor of media studies at The New School in New York City.
Mattern’s research and teaching address how the forms and materialities of media are related to the spaces (architectural, urban, and conceptual) they create and inhabit. She writes about libraries and archives, media infrastructures, the material qualities of media objects, media companies’ headquarters and sites of media-related labor, place branding, public design projects, urban media art, and mediated sensation. She is the author of The New Downtown Library; Deep Mapping the Media City; and Code and Clay, Data and Dirt: 5000 Years of Urban Media, all published by the University of Minnesota Press.
Articles
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Maintenance and Care
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All Eyes on the Border
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Community Plumbing
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Databodies in Codespace
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The Big Data of Ice, Rocks, Soils, and Sediments
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Mapping’s Intelligent Agents
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Closet Archive
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A City Is Not a Computer
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Public In/Formation
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Cloud and Field
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Instrumental City: The View from Hudson Yards
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Indexing the World of Tomorrow
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History of the Urban Dashboard
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Speculative Archaeology
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Library as Infrastructure
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Interfacing Urban Intelligence
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Methodolatry and the Art of Measure
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Infrastructural Tourism
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Paju Bookcity: The Next Chapter
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Little Libraries in the Urban Margins