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'''Shannon Mattern''' is an Associate Professor in the School of Media Studies at The New School in New York. Her teaching and research address relationships between the forms and materialities of media and the spaces -- architectural, urban, and conceptual -- they create and inhabit. She has written about libraries and archives, media companies' headquarters, place branding, public design projects, urban media art, media acoustics, media infrastructures, and material texts. Formerly a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania, she has also taught at NYU, Parsons The New School for Design, and Rutgers University. She lives in [[New York City]].
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'''Shannon Mattern''' is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at The New School in New York. For 14.5 years she served as a faculty member in The New School’s School of Media Studies. Her writing and teaching focus on archives, libraries, and other media spaces; media infrastructures; spatial epistemologies; and mediated sensation and exhibition. She's the author of three books: ''The New Downtown Library: Designing with Communities''; ''Deep Mapping the Media City''; and ''Code and Clay, Dirt and Data: 5000 Years of Urban Media'', all published by University of Minnesota Press. ''A City Is Not a Computer'' is under contract with Princeton University Press. Shannon Mattern has also written several dozen journal articles and book chapters, and she writes a regular long-form column about urban data and mediated infrastructures for ''Places'', an open-access journal focusing on architecture, urbanism, and landscape. She contributes to public design and interactive projects and exhibitions, too. And from 2006 to 2009 she directed the 600-student Graduate Program in Media Studies. She lives in [[New York City]]. [https://wordsinspace.net/shannon/about/ (2020)]
  
 
==Publications==
 
==Publications==
===Books===
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===Books, dossiers===
* ''The New Downtown Library'', University of Minnesota Press, 2007. [https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-new-downtown-library]
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* ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=18530 Deep Mapping the Media City]'', University of Minnesota Press, 2015, xvi+51 pp.  
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* ''The New Downtown Library'', Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2007, 193 pp. [https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-new-downtown-library Publisher]. Review: [http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/TSB.2009.010 Kruszewski] (TSB, PL).
* ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/b/NcpMDnxhUDSBHmhYKS5Krj2lumcpCP1bkWeHGAYbgAtqSrg6 Code and Clay, Data and Dirt: Five Thousand Years of Urban Media]'', University of Minnesota Press, 2017, 288 pp. [https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/code-and-clay-data-and-dirt]
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* ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=18530 Deep Mapping the Media City]'', Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2015, xvi+51 pp.  
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* ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/40989fcb-aeee-4404-b8ac-00201118a7b0 Code and Clay, Data and Dirt: Five Thousand Years of Urban Media]'', Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2017, 288 pp. [https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/code-and-clay-data-and-dirt Publisher]. Reviews: [https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2019.463010 Kane] (Afterimage), [https://sci-hub.se/10.1353/tech.2019.0054 Jackson] (Tech & Cult), [https://sci-hub.se/10.1080/17530350.2019.1573435 Umney] (J Cult Econ).
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* editor, [https://urbanomnibus.net/series/digital-frictions/ ''Urban Omnibus'': "Digital Frictions"], New York: Architectural League of New York, Sep 2019-Jan 2020.
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* co-editor, ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=21654 How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables]'', London: Meatspace Press, Oct 2019.
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* ''A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences'', New York: Princeton University Press, Aug 2021, 200 pp. [https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691208053/a-city-is-not-a-computer Publisher].
  
 
===Book chapters, papers, essays===
 
===Book chapters, papers, essays===
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* [https://placesjournal.org/article/marginalia-little-libraries-in-the-urban-margins/ "Marginalia: Little Libraries in the Urban Margins"], ''Places'', 22 May 2012.
 
* [https://placesjournal.org/article/marginalia-little-libraries-in-the-urban-margins/ "Marginalia: Little Libraries in the Urban Margins"], ''Places'', 22 May 2012.
* [http://places.designobserver.com/feature/infrastructural-tourism/37939/ "Infrastructural Tourism"], ''Places'', 1 Jul 2013.
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* [https://placesjournal.org/article/paju-bookcity-the-next-chapter/ "Paju Bookcity: The Next Chapter"], ''Places'', Jan 2013.
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* [https://placesjournal.org/article/infrastructural-tourism/ "Infrastructural Tourism"], ''Places'', 1 Jul 2013.
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* [http://amodern.net/article/ear-to-the-wire/ "Ear to the Wire: Listening to Historic Urban Infrastructures"], ''Amodern'' 2: "Network Archaeologies", Oct 2013.
 
* [http://amodern.net/article/ear-to-the-wire/ "Ear to the Wire: Listening to Historic Urban Infrastructures"], ''Amodern'' 2: "Network Archaeologies", Oct 2013.
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* [http://www.reanimationlibrary.org/pages/wpmattern "Bureaucracy’s Playthings"], Reanimation Library’s ''Word Processor'', 28 Oct 2013.
 
* [http://www.reanimationlibrary.org/pages/wpmattern "Bureaucracy’s Playthings"], Reanimation Library’s ''Word Processor'', 28 Oct 2013.
* [http://places.designobserver.com/feature/methodolatry-in-urban-data-science/38174/ "Methodolatry and the Art of Measure: The New Wave of Urban Data Science"], ''Places'', 5 Nov 2013.
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* [https://placesjournal.org/article/methodolatry-and-the-art-of-measure/ "Methodolatry and the Art of Measure: The New Wave of Urban Data Science"], ''Places'', 5 Nov 2013.
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* [http://nautil.us/blog/preserving-yesterdays-tech-to-get-a-better-grasp-on-todays "Preserving Yesterday's Tech to Get a Better Gasp on Today's"], ''Nautilus'', 22 Nov 2013.
 
* [http://nautil.us/blog/preserving-yesterdays-tech-to-get-a-better-grasp-on-todays "Preserving Yesterday's Tech to Get a Better Gasp on Today's"], ''Nautilus'', 22 Nov 2013.
* [http://places.designobserver.com/feature/how-do-we-interface-with-smart-cities/38443/ "Interfacing Urban Intelligence"], ''Places'', 28 Apr 2014.
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* "Animated Spaces: Experience and Context in Interaction and Architectural Design Exhibitions", ''Senses & Society'' 9:2, Spring 2014, pp 131-150.
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* [https://placesjournal.org/article/interfacing-urban-intelligence/ "Interfacing Urban Intelligence"], ''Places'', 28 Apr 2014.
* [http://places.designobserver.com/feature/library-as-infrastructure/38488/ "Library as Infrastructure"], ''Places'', 9 Jun 2014.
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* [https://sci-hub.se/10.2752/174589314X13953118734742 "Animated Spaces: Experience and Context in Interaction and Architectural Design Exhibitions"], ''Senses & Society'' 9:2, Spring 2014, pp 131-150.
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* [https://placesjournal.org/article/library-as-infrastructure "Library as Infrastructure"], ''Places'', 9 Jun 2014.
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* [https://medium.com/@shannonmattern/intellectual-furnishings-e2076cf5f2de "Intellectual Furnishings"], ''Medium'', 19 Oct 2014.
 
* [https://medium.com/@shannonmattern/intellectual-furnishings-e2076cf5f2de "Intellectual Furnishings"], ''Medium'', 19 Oct 2014.
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* [https://placesjournal.org/article/speculative-archaeology/ "Speculative Archaeology"], ''Places'', 12 Dec 2014.
 
* [https://placesjournal.org/article/speculative-archaeology/ "Speculative Archaeology"], ''Places'', 12 Dec 2014.
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* [https://medium.com/genres-of-scholarly-knowledge-production/unconventionalizing-convention-71cbe753ffb3 "Un-conventionalizing Convention"], ''Medium'', 11 Jan 2015.
 
* [https://medium.com/genres-of-scholarly-knowledge-production/unconventionalizing-convention-71cbe753ffb3 "Un-conventionalizing Convention"], ''Medium'', 11 Jan 2015.
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* [https://placesjournal.org/article/mission-control-a-history-of-the-urban-dashboard/ "Mission Control: A History of the Urban Dashboard"], ''Places'', Mar 2015.
 
* [https://placesjournal.org/article/mission-control-a-history-of-the-urban-dashboard/ "Mission Control: A History of the Urban Dashboard"], ''Places'', Mar 2015.
* "Deep Time of Media Infrastructure", in ''[http://aaaaarg.fail/thing/571efa139ff37c05dc61d784 Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructures]'', eds. Lisa Parks and Nicole Starosielski, Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2015.
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* "Deep Time of Media Infrastructure", in ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/0c8a0527-fb0d-4894-8cb8-39f401e2801d Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructures]'', eds. Lisa Parks and Nicole Starosielski, Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2015.
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** [https://doi.org/10.18861/ic.2019.14.2.2927 "El tiempo profundo de la infraestructura mediática"], trans. Nicolás Llano Linares, ''InMediaciones de la Comunicación'' 14:2, Dec 2019, pp 211-232. {{es}}
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* [http://urbanomnibus.net/2015/06/middlewhere-landscapes-of-library-logistics/ "Middlewhere: The Landscape of Library Logistics"], ''Urban Omnibus'', Jun 2015; repr. as [http://motherboard.vice.com/read/behind-new-yorks-library-network "Behind New York’s Library Network"], ''Motherboard'', 21 Jul 2015.
 
* [http://urbanomnibus.net/2015/06/middlewhere-landscapes-of-library-logistics/ "Middlewhere: The Landscape of Library Logistics"], ''Urban Omnibus'', Jun 2015; repr. as [http://motherboard.vice.com/read/behind-new-yorks-library-network "Behind New York’s Library Network"], ''Motherboard'', 21 Jul 2015.
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* [https://placesjournal.org/article/indexing-the-world-of-tomorrow-1939-worlds-fair/ "Indexing the World of Tomorrow"], ''Places'', Feb 2016.
 
* [https://placesjournal.org/article/indexing-the-world-of-tomorrow-1939-worlds-fair/ "Indexing the World of Tomorrow"], ''Places'', Feb 2016.
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* [https://placesjournal.org/article/instrumental-city-new-york-hudson-yards/ "Instrumental City: The View from Hudson Yards, circa 2019"], ''Places'', Apr 2016.
 
* [https://placesjournal.org/article/instrumental-city-new-york-hudson-yards/ "Instrumental City: The View from Hudson Yards, circa 2019"], ''Places'', Apr 2016.
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* [https://placesjournal.org/article/cloud-and-field/ "Cloud and Field"], ''Places'', Aug 2016.
 
* [https://placesjournal.org/article/cloud-and-field/ "Cloud and Field"], ''Places'', Aug 2016.
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* [http://www.wordsinspace.net/shannon/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/V49_Mattern.pdf "Animated Aberrations, Rebellious Objects"], ''Volume'' 49, Sep 2016, pp 39-43. On Zoe Beloff.
 
* [http://www.wordsinspace.net/shannon/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/V49_Mattern.pdf "Animated Aberrations, Rebellious Objects"], ''Volume'' 49, Sep 2016, pp 39-43. On Zoe Beloff.
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* [https://placesjournal.org/article/public-information/ "Public In/Formation"], ''Places'', Nov 2016.
 
* [https://placesjournal.org/article/public-information/ "Public In/Formation"], ''Places'', Nov 2016.
* "Scaffolding, Hard and Soft: Media Infrastructures as Critical and Generative Structures", in ''The Routledge Companion to Media Studies and Digital Humanities'', ed. Jentery Sayers, Routledge, 2016. [http://www.wordsinspace.net/shannon/portfolio/scaffolding-hard-and-soft-media-infrastructures-as-critical-and-generative-structures/]
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* "Equipment for Redemptive Living", in ''Correctional Collections'', ed. Joel Stoehr, New York: Parsons School of Design, 2016. [http://www.wordsinspace.net/shannon/portfolio/equipment-for-redemptive-living/]
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* [https://wordsinspace.net/2016/04/11/equipment-for-redemptive-living/ "Equipment for Redemptive Living"], in ''Correctional Collections'', ed. Joel Stoehr, New York: Parsons School of Design, 2016.
* [http://sci-hub.tw/10.1215/17432197-3648870 "Of Mud, Media, and the Metropolis: Aggregating Histories of Writing and Urbanization"], ''Cultural Politics'' 12(3): "Geological Media", ed. Jussi Parikka, Fall 2016, pp 310-331. [http://www.wordsinspace.net/shannon/portfolio/of-mud-media-and-the-metropolis-aggregating-histories-of-writing-and-urbanization/]
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* [http://sci-hub.se/10.1215/17432197-3648870 "Of Mud, Media, and the Metropolis: Aggregating Histories of Writing and Urbanization"], ''Cultural Politics'' 12(3): "Geological Media", ed. Jussi Parikka, Fall 2016, pp 310-331.
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* [http://www.harvarddesignmagazine.org/issues/43/before-billy-a-brief-history-of-the-bookcase "Before BILLY: A Brief History of the Bookcase"], ''Harvard Design Magazine'' 43: "Shelf Life", Fall/Winter 2016.
 
* [http://www.harvarddesignmagazine.org/issues/43/before-billy-a-brief-history-of-the-bookcase "Before BILLY: A Brief History of the Bookcase"], ''Harvard Design Magazine'' 43: "Shelf Life", Fall/Winter 2016.
* [https://placesjournal.org/article/a-city-is-not-a-computer/ "A City Is Not a Computer"], ''Places'', Feb 2017.
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* "Sonic Archaeologies", in ''The Sound Studies Companion'', ed. Michael Bull, New York: Routledge, 2017. [http://www.wordsinspace.net/shannon/portfolio/sonic-archaeologies/]
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* [https://placesjournal.org/article/a-city-is-not-a-computer/ "A City Is Not a Computer"], ''Places'', Feb 2017; repr. in ''Historic Cities: Issues in Urban Conservation'', eds. Jeff Cody and Francesco Siravo, Los Angeles: J. P. Getty Museum, 2019.
* more: [https://placesjournal.org/author/shannon-mattern/ writings in ''Places''], [http://medium.com/@shannonmattern writings on ''Medium.com''], [https://www.newschool.edu/public-engagement/school-of-media-studies-faculty/?id=4d54-4934-4d7a-4577 more]
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* [https://placesjournal.org/article/closet-archive/ "Closet Archive: A stuffed history of the closet, where the “past becomes space”"], ''Places'', Jul 2017.
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* "Sonic Archaeologies", in ''The Routledge Companion to Sound Studies'', ed. Michael Bull, New York: Routledge, Oct 2018. [https://wordsinspace.net/static/4ea63802624c3a290683917ae403a9be/mattern_sonicarchaeologies_routledge_uneditedproofs.pdf Proofs]. [https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Sound-Studies/Bull/p/book/9780367659745 Publisher]. [https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315722191-25/sonic-archaeologies-mattern-shannon]
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* [https://placesjournal.org/article/mappings-intelligent-agents/ "Mapping's Intelligent Agents"], ''Places'', Sep 2017; repr. in ''Mapping and Politics in the Digital Age'', eds. Pol Bargués-Pedreny, David Chandler, and Elena Simon, Routledge, Nov 2018. [https://www.routledge.com/Mapping-and-Politics-in-the-Digital-Age/Bargues-Pedreny-Chandler-Simon/p/book/9780815357421 Publisher].
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* [https://placesjournal.org/article/the-big-data-of-ice-rocks-soils-and-sediments/ "The Big Data of Ice, Rocks, Soils, and Sediments: Inside the material archives of climate science"], ''Places'', Nov 2017.
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* [https://icd.wordsinspace.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/mattern_extractpreserve.pdf "Extract and Preserve: Underground Repositories for a Posthuman Future?"], ''New Geographies'' 9: "Posthuman", eds. Mariano Gomez Luque and Ghazal Jafari, Harvard University Press, and Actar, Jan 2018, pp 52-59. [https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/publication/new-geographies-09-posthuman/ Publisher]. [https://wordsinspace.net/extract-and-preserve-underground-repositories-for-a-posthuman-future/] [https://www.librarystack.org/extract-and-preserve-underground-repositories-for-a-posthuman-future/]
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* [https://placesjournal.org/article/databodies-in-codespace/ "Databodies in Codespace: As the bioengineering of people and cities converges, where do we locate the public sphere?"], ''Places'', Apr 2018.
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* [https://wordsinspace.net/static/788b350d605e5522706b855770f10b0e/mattern_scaffolding_routledge.pdf "Scaffolding, Hard and Soft: Media Infrastructures as Critical and Generative Structures"], in ''The Routledge Companion to Media Studies and Digital Humanities'', ed. Jentery Sayers, Routledge, May 2018. [https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Media-Studies-and-Digital-Humanities/Sayers/p/book/9780367580681 Publisher]. [https://wordsinspace.net/scaffolding-hard-and-soft-media-infrastructures-as-critical-and-generative-structures/]
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* [https://placesjournal.org/article/community-plumbing-a-history-of-the-hardware-store/ "Community Plumbing: How the hardware store orders things, neighborhoods, and material worlds"], ''Places'', Jul 2018.
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* [https://placesjournal.org/article/all-eyes-on-the-border/ "All Eyes on the Border: In Trump’s America, the politics of recognition are changing"], ''Places'', Sep 2018.
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* [https://placesjournal.org/article/maintenance-and-care/ "Maintenance and Care: A working guide to the repair of rust, dust, cracks, and corrupted code in our cities, our homes, and our social relations"], ''Places'', Nov 2018.
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* [https://publicknowledge.sfmoma.org/local-codes-forms-of-spatial-knowledge/ "Local Codes: Forms of Spatial Knowledge"], ''Public Knowledge'', San Francisco: SFMOMA & San Francisco Public Library, 18 Jan 2019.
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* with Urban Intelligence, [https://www.leoalmanac.org/auditing-urban-intelligence-interfacing-place-based-knowledge-urban-intelligence-the-new-school/ "Auditing Urban Intelligence: Interfacing Place-Based Knowledge"], ''Leonardo Electronic Almanac'' 22:4, Mar 2019.
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* [https://reallifemag.com/networked-dream-worlds/ "Networked Dream Worlds: Is 5G solving real, pressing problems or merely creating new ones?"], ''Real Life'', 8 Jul 2019.
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* [http://www.lapsuslima.com/minimal-maintenance/ "Minimal Maintenance"], ''Lapsus Lima'', 2 Oct 2019.
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* [https://placesjournal.org/article/fugitive-libraries/ "Fugitive Libraries"], ''Places'', Oct 2019.
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* [https://wordsinspace.net/shannon/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/shannon-mattern-i-stand-in-my-place-3.pdf "The Gentle Wind Doth Move Visibly"], in ''I Stand in My Place with My Own Day Here: Site-Specific Art at The New School'', ed. Frances Richard, Duke University Press, Oct 2019. [https://www.dukeupress.edu/i-stand-in-my-place-with-my-own-day-here Publisher].
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* [https://www.arch.columbia.edu/books/reader/483-ways-of-knowing-cities#reader-anchor-11 "Ether and Ore: An Archaeology of Urban Intelligences"], in ''Ways of Knowing Cities'', eds. Laura Kurgan and Dare Brawley, Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, Dec 2019, pp 120-130, [https://icd.wordsinspace.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/mattern_pages-from-ways-of-knowing-cities_final-spreads.pdf PDF]. [https://www.arch.columbia.edu/books/catalog/483-ways-of-knowing-cities Publisher].
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* "Fluttering Code: A Cultural and Aesthetic History of the Split-flap Display", ''Modes of Criticism'' 5: "Design Systems", Eindhoven: Onomatopee, Dec 2019, pp 49-63. [https://modesofcriticism.org/modes-of-criticism-5/] [https://wordsinspace.net/fluttering-codes-a-cultural-and-aesthetic-history-of-the-split-flap-display/]
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* "Auto-Advance: The Art of the Slide Deck", ''Art in America'' 108:2, Feb 2020, pp 64-69; posted as [https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/artists-using-powerpoint-critique-rhetorical-strategies-tan-lin-tony-cokes-david-byrne-1202676971/ "Using PowerPoint, Artists Ask How Performative Presentations Shape Our Thinking"], ''Art in America'', 5 Feb 2020.
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* [https://placesjournal.org/article/post-it-note-city/ "Post-It Note City"], ''Places'', Feb 2020.
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* [https://amodern.net/article/encrypted-repositories/ "Encrypted Repositories: Techniques of Secret Storage, From Desks to Databases"], ''Amodern'' 9, Apr 2020.
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* [https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/andrew-cuomo-covid-briefings-powerpoint-slideshow-authority-1202683735/ "Andrew Cuomo’s COVID-19 Briefings Draw on the Persuasive Authority of Powerpoint"], ''Art in America'', 13 Apr 2020.
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* [https://placesjournal.org/article/urban-auscultation-or-perceiving-the-action-of-the-heart/ "Urban Auscultation; or, Perceiving the Action of the Heart"], ''Places'', Apr 2020.
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** [https://10.0.79.172/rua.v26i2.8661453 "Auscultação urbana: ou percebendo a ação do coração"], trans. Eduardo Harry Luersen, ''RUA'' 26:2, Campinas: LABEURB, Nov 2020, pp 385-409. {{br-pt}}
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* with Emily Bowe and Erin Simmons, [https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951720939236 "Learning from Lines: Critical COVID Visualizations and the Quarantine Quotidian"], ''Big Data & Society'', Jul 2020.
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* [https://wordsinspace.net/static/56f7db288527250b47ed37a51c47edc9/mattern_calculativecomposition_oxfordhandbookai.pdf "Calculative Composition: The Ethics of Automating Design"], in ''The Oxford Handbook of Ethics of AI'', eds. Markus Dubber, Frank Pasquale, and Sunit Das, Oxford University Press, Jul 2020. [https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190067397.013.37]
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* [https://sci-hub.se/10.1177/0263276420958052 "The Spectacle of Data: A Century of Fairs, ''Fiches'', and Fantasies"], ''Theory, Culture & Society'' 37:7-8, Oct 2020, pp 133-155. [https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0263276420958052]
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* [https://monoskop.org/images/8/84/Bexte_Peter_Leeker_Martina_Hrsg_Ein_Medium_namens_McLuhan_37_Befragungen_eines_Klassikers_2020.pdf#page=54 "Shannon Mattern"], in ''Ein Medium namens McLuhan. 37 Befragungen eines Klassikers'', eds. Peter Bexte and Martina Leeker, Lüneburg: meson press, 2020, pp 52-53.
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* [https://placesjournal.org/article/purity-and-security-a-cultural-history-of-plexiglass/ "Purity and Security: Towards A Cultural History of Plexiglass"], ''Places'', Dec 2020.
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* "Afterword", in ''Crowdsourcing, Constructing and Collaborating Methods and Social Impacts of Mapping the World Today'', eds. Siddharth Peter deSouza, Nida Rehman, and Saba Sharma, Bloomsbury India, Dec 2020.
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* [https://placesjournal.org/article/how-to-map-nothing/ "How to Map Nothing"], ''Places'', Mar 2021.
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* "The Pulse of Global Passage: Listening to Logistics", in ''Assembly Codes: The Logistics of Media'', eds. Matthew Curtis Hockenberry, Nicole Starosielski, and Susan Marjorie Zieger, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, Sep 2021. [https://www.dukeupress.edu/assembly-codes]
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* more: [https://placesjournal.org/author/shannon-mattern/ writings in ''Places''],  [http://medium.com/@shannonmattern writings on ''Medium.com'']
  
 
==Interviews==
 
==Interviews==
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* Gina Conley, [http://web.archive.org/web/20121108063319/http://figureground.ca/interviews/shannon-mattern/ "Shannon Mattern"], ''Figure/Ground Communication'', Aug 2012.
 
* Gina Conley, [http://web.archive.org/web/20121108063319/http://figureground.ca/interviews/shannon-mattern/ "Shannon Mattern"], ''Figure/Ground Communication'', Aug 2012.
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* Trevor Owens, [http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2014/06/preservation-aesthetics-an-interview-with-shannon-mattern/ "Preservation Aesthetics: An interview with Shannon Mattern"], ''The Signal: Digital Preservation'', The Library of Congress, 9 Jun 2014.
 
* Trevor Owens, [http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2014/06/preservation-aesthetics-an-interview-with-shannon-mattern/ "Preservation Aesthetics: An interview with Shannon Mattern"], ''The Signal: Digital Preservation'', The Library of Congress, 9 Jun 2014.
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* Christine Mitchell, [http://amodern.net/article/media-archaeology-poetry-sound/ "Media Archaeology of Poetry and Sound: A Conversation with Shannon Mattern"], ''Amodern'' 4: "The Poetry Series", Mar 2015.
 
* Christine Mitchell, [http://amodern.net/article/media-archaeology-poetry-sound/ "Media Archaeology of Poetry and Sound: A Conversation with Shannon Mattern"], ''Amodern'' 4: "The Poetry Series", Mar 2015.
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* [https://icd.wordsinspace.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/choimattern_wovencircuits.pdf "Woven Circuits: An Interview with Taeyoon Choi"], in ''Bauhaus Futures'', eds. Mike Ananny, Laura Forlano, and Molly Wright Steenson, MIT Press, Oct 2019, pp 215-223.
  
 
==Links==
 
==Links==
 
* [http://www.wordsinspace.net Personal website]
 
* [http://www.wordsinspace.net Personal website]
* [http://www.newschool.edu/public-engagement/school-of-media-studies-faculty/?id=4d54-4934-4d7a-4577 Profile at New School], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRbw1jZ1KDU]
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* [https://www.newschool.edu/nssr/faculty/shannon-mattern/ Profile on New School], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRbw1jZ1KDU]
 
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Shannon Mattern is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at The New School in New York. For 14.5 years she served as a faculty member in The New School’s School of Media Studies. Her writing and teaching focus on archives, libraries, and other media spaces; media infrastructures; spatial epistemologies; and mediated sensation and exhibition. She's the author of three books: The New Downtown Library: Designing with Communities; Deep Mapping the Media City; and Code and Clay, Dirt and Data: 5000 Years of Urban Media, all published by University of Minnesota Press. A City Is Not a Computer is under contract with Princeton University Press. Shannon Mattern has also written several dozen journal articles and book chapters, and she writes a regular long-form column about urban data and mediated infrastructures for Places, an open-access journal focusing on architecture, urbanism, and landscape. She contributes to public design and interactive projects and exhibitions, too. And from 2006 to 2009 she directed the 600-student Graduate Program in Media Studies. She lives in New York City. (2020)

Publications

Books, dossiers

  • The New Downtown Library, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2007, 193 pp. Publisher. Review: Kruszewski (TSB, PL).
  • A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences, New York: Princeton University Press, Aug 2021, 200 pp. Publisher.

Book chapters, papers, essays

  • "A City Is Not a Computer", Places, Feb 2017; repr. in Historic Cities: Issues in Urban Conservation, eds. Jeff Cody and Francesco Siravo, Los Angeles: J. P. Getty Museum, 2019.
  • "Sonic Archaeologies", in The Routledge Companion to Sound Studies, ed. Michael Bull, New York: Routledge, Oct 2018. Proofs. Publisher. [1]
  • "Fluttering Code: A Cultural and Aesthetic History of the Split-flap Display", Modes of Criticism 5: "Design Systems", Eindhoven: Onomatopee, Dec 2019, pp 49-63. [5] [6]
  • "Shannon Mattern", in Ein Medium namens McLuhan. 37 Befragungen eines Klassikers, eds. Peter Bexte and Martina Leeker, Lüneburg: meson press, 2020, pp 52-53.
  • "Afterword", in Crowdsourcing, Constructing and Collaborating Methods and Social Impacts of Mapping the World Today, eds. Siddharth Peter deSouza, Nida Rehman, and Saba Sharma, Bloomsbury India, Dec 2020.
  • "The Pulse of Global Passage: Listening to Logistics", in Assembly Codes: The Logistics of Media, eds. Matthew Curtis Hockenberry, Nicole Starosielski, and Susan Marjorie Zieger, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, Sep 2021. [9]

Interviews

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