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
As a native of Los Angeles, I have witnessed the smog worsen over the years. These photographs serve to complicate and add nuance to how people have conceptualized smog as a problem in LA. In the...Read more
The image’s subject is the community garden which serves as a proxy for the community itself. The spatial location of the garden near the freeway will inevitably impact the health and...Read more
I would blow up the image of the police officer playing Connect 4 so that this is the only image on the left side. It has such affective force that I think it should be the main focus...Read more
I see a racist toxicity in the policing practices of the LASPD and the attempted masking of this toxicity. However, I would appreciate the author building their own conception of...Read more
This image is a mini-collage of two portrait photos of people engaging in heteronormative ideologies and behaviors.Read more
This image communicates the 'potential' of lead poisoning. I appreciated this image as an ethnographic object because, as the author points out, it represents the gap between reality and public...Read more
To get at my earlier questions about class, how can we collage this image with a Zillow type visualization that shows relative property prices of developments in this area? How can that help us to...Read more