Visualizing Toxic Subjects

Found Image: Building the Blood Brain Barrier

This image was useful for an exploration of the concept of permeability in relation to visuality and "toxicity." I would be interested in seeing how the "ethnographic message" of this image is...Read more

Stephanie Narrow: Admitted at: Calexico, Calif.

I would be interested in seeing a collage that incorporates both sides of the ID card - or perhaps even included in the caption an overview of the type of information included on the biographical...Read more

Rachel Lee & Molly Bloom: Keeping the Children Safe

The image communicates a great deal about how the LASPD is constructing force and policing as a paternalistic type of care of children. It suggests that, it is for the own good of the...Read more

Toxics Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Science

Kim Fortun discusses the role of digital infrastructures and visualization practices in rendering toxics legible.Read more

Rachel Lee: It's Elemental

The image communicates the authority and persuasive rhetoric of corporate sponsored remediation science: "cinnabar" circulates in the contemporary U.S. (or for my age group, at least) as the name...Read more

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