Visualizing Toxic Subjects

Fred Ariel Hernandez: SEN. JAMES INHOFE (R-OK) SNOWBALL IN THE SENATE (C-SPAN), FEB 26, 2015

I mentioned in a different response to this photo that I noticed the empty seats surrounding the senator. I wonder if that sense of lonliness, or the comedic nature of his ludicrious claims, could...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

Alice Chen: Cisgender Fragility

As an anthropologist, this image could be considered a part of kinship studies and how we culturally produce normative family structures. Furthermore, these structure endure for generations. The...Read more

Stephanie Narrow: Found Image: Beijing Before and After the Smog

Having also chosen such a structure that juxtaposes two images of the same space at different times, I think it provides a clear way of articulating change over time that many visuals cannot. Even...Read more

Rachel Lee & Molly Bloom: Interventions

The image of the police officer playing connect 4 with the young boy in touching. I want to relish in this captured moment in which male police officers and the boy (who is normally the...Read more

Stephanie Narrow: Admitted at: Calexico, Calif.

This image encourages a conversation about the state's role in creating and managing toxicity. Such an ID card would support James Scott's idea of state legibility of its subjects. Read more

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