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'''Shannon Mattern''' is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at The New School in New York. 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. She also 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 lives in [[New York City]].
  
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==Publications==
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===Books===
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* ''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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* ''[http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/40989fcb-aeee-4404-b8ac-00201118a7b0 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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* co-editor, ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=21654 How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables]'', London: Meatspace Press, 2019.
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===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.
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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.
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* [http://www.reanimationlibrary.org/pages/wpmattern "Bureaucracy’s Playthings"], Reanimation Library’s ''Word Processor'', 28 Oct 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.
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* [https://placesjournal.org/article/interfacing-urban-intelligence/ "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/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.
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* [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.
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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.
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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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* [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.
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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.
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* [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.
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* [https://placesjournal.org/article/public-information/ "Public In/Formation"], ''Places'', Nov 2016.
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* "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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* [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://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.
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* [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/closet-archive/ "Closet Archive: A stuffed history of the closet, where the “past becomes space”"], ''Places'', Jul 2017.
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* [https://placesjournal.org/article/mappings-intelligent-agents/ "Mapping’s Intelligent Agents"], ''Places'', Sep 2017.
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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://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://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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* [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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* 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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==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.
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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.
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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.
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==Links==
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* [http://www.wordsinspace.net Personal website]
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* [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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* [http://twitter.com/shannonmattern Twitter]
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Revision as of 15:39, 30 October 2019

Shannon Mattern is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at The New School in New York. 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. She also 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 lives in New York City.

Publications

Books

Book chapters, papers, essays

Interviews

Links