Author Archives: Jeff K

COTA Revisited – From the Invisibility of Industry to the Industries of Invisibility (PART II)

Posted on September 7, 2015

[This is the second part of the transcript of the talk we delivered at Gallery 400 in Chicago. Many thanks to Beate Geissler, Oliver Sann, and Anthony Stepter for the logistics and hospitality, and to the audience, including Brian Holmes, … Continue reading →

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Stockholm’s Suburbs Are on Fire

Posted on May 24, 2013

Here is a translation of two texts about the ongoing Swedish riots that have appeared in the Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet authored by Megafonen and Pantrarna. Megafonen (The Megaphone) and Pantrarna (The Panthers) are two community activist groups based in Swedish … Continue reading →

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Missile Containerization

Posted on September 24, 2012

A new missile system that takes advantage of containerization. Via critical logistics

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Golfing Detroit

Posted on July 12, 2012

Camilo José Vergara once suggested turning all of downtown Detroit into a ‘ruins park’ or ‘American acropolis’. How about a golf course asks journalist Charlie LeDuff? Note the appearance of ‘ruin pornographers’ at 6:15.

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A Series of Maps of the World as Known at Different Periods

Posted on May 24, 2012

From Edward Quin’s An Historical Atlas; In a Series of Maps of the World as Known at Different Periods (1830) The above image is from 1498: The Discovery Of America. Via: the David Rumsey Map Collection and Cartophile.

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Manhatta (1921) by Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand

Posted on April 17, 2012

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Posted on April 17, 2012

Princeton historian Ben Schmidt’s visualization of all the shipping routes taken by Dutch, Spanish, and English vessels between 1750 and 1850.

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