Shannon Mattern
Contributing Writer
Shannon Mattern is a contributing writer for Places.
Mattern is the Penn Presidential Compact Professor of Media Studies at History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Before that, she served for nearly two decades as a professor of media studies and anthropology at The New School in New York. Mattern’s research and teaching focus on media architectures, information infrastructures, and urban technologies. Her books include 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. Her latest book, A City Is Not a Computer, the second volume of Places Books, is an expansion of several of her Places articles.
Articles
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Fountain Society
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Concealment and Compassion
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Tree Thinking
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How to Map Nothing
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Towards a Cultural History of Plexiglass
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Urban Auscultation
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Field Notes on Pandemic Teaching: 3
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Post-It Note City
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Fugitive Libraries
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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