This is a short and very evocative piece by Elizabeth Povinelli. I was reminded of it in today's conversation about disposable lives/cameras, and later by the comment on (synthetic) colors and toxins. In the article, Povinelli talks about the fumes and toxic materials released by the Kodak factory, which was near her hometown.
She entangles Kodak's toxic production and narratives about that toxicity with the decline of the film industry and the profitable remediation industry.
My questions: when do buried toxic materials and stories about their toxicity emerge and why? When are they made public, exposed? Who benefits from such exposés and from grievances and remediation processes?
Anonymous, "Fires, Fogs and Winds. Povinelli", contributed by Diana Pardo Pedraza, Center for Ethnography, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 3 February 2020, accessed 21 May 2024. http://centerforethnography.org/content/fires-fogs-and-winds-povinelli
Critical Commentary
This is a short and very evocative piece by Elizabeth Povinelli. I was reminded of it in today's conversation about disposable lives/cameras, and later by the comment on (synthetic) colors and toxins. In the article, Povinelli talks about the fumes and toxic materials released by the Kodak factory, which was near her hometown.
She entangles Kodak's toxic production and narratives about that toxicity with the decline of the film industry and the profitable remediation industry.
My questions: when do buried toxic materials and stories about their toxicity emerge and why? When are they made public, exposed? Who benefits from such exposés and from grievances and remediation processes?