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Impressions of Disaster

Nashin Mahtani

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2013 floods in Jakarta inundated districts typically unexposed to flooding, including the central business district. In a time of climate change, when overcapacity of physical infrastructures is the “new normal,” the externalities of planetary-scale computation have disrupted traditional ways of knowing and ways of living with the flood. Photo: Twitter/@LukeMunns

Post-Internet Cities
August 2017










Notes
1

Félix Guattari, "Towards a Post-Media Era," in Provocative Alloys: A Post-Media Anthology, eds. Clemens Apprich, Josephine Berry Slater, Anthony Iles, and Oliver Lerone Schultz (Post Media Lab & Mute Books, 2013), 27.

2

Benjamin H. Bratton, The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2015), 39.

3

Jakob von Uexkull, A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010), 47.

4

Ibid., 47.

5

Meg McLagan and Yates McKee, eds., Sensible Politics: The Visual Culture of Nongovernmental Activism (New York: Zone, 2012).

6

Steven Quartz and Terance Sejnowski, “The Neural Basis of Cognitive Development”, in Cognitive Architecture: From Biopolitics to Noopolitics. Architecture & Mind in the Age of Communication and Information, eds. Deborah Haputmann and Warren Neidich (Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, 2010), 101.

7

Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, trans. Sebastian Rand (New York: Fordham University Press, 2008).

8

Henri Bergson, The Creative Mind (1941), trans. Mabelle L. Andison (New York: Carol Publishing, 1992), 74.

9

Mary C. Potter, Brad Wyble, Carl Erick Hagmann, and Emily S. McCourt, “Detecting meaning in RSVP at 13 ms per picture,” Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 76, no. 2 (2014): 270; .

10

Betsy Sparrow, Jenny Liu, and Daniel M.Wegner, “Google Effects on Memory: Cognitive Consequences of Having Information at our Fingertips,” Science 333, (2011): 778.

11

Felicity Callard and Daniel S. Margulies, “The Industrious Subject: Cognitive Neuroscience’s Reevaluation of Rest”, in Ibid., Hauptmann and Neidich, 328.

12

Deborah Hauptmann, “Introduction: Architecture and the Mind in the Age of Communication and Information,” in Ibid., Hauptmann and Neidich, 30.

13

Andrej Radman, “Figure, Discourse: To the Abstract Concretely,” in Ibid., Hauptmann and Neidich, 431.

14

Jan Zalasiewicz, Mark Williams, Alan Haywood, and Michael Ellis, “The Anthropocene: a new epoch of geological time?” Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society: Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences 369, No.1938 (2011): 835-41; see also, Clive Hamilton, Christophe Bonneuil, and François Gemenne, eds., The Anthropocene and the Global Environmental Crisis: Rethinking Modernity in a New Epoch (London: Routledge, 2015).

15

Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, trans. Brian Massumi (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987).

16

On Jakarta as a city of the Anthropocene, see Jakarta: Architecture + Adaptation, eds. Etienne Turpin, Adam Bobbette, Meredith Miller (Jakarta: Universitas Indonesia Press, 2013) and David Chandler, “Securing the Anthropocene? International policy experiments in digital hacktivism: A case study of Jakarta,” Security Dialogue 48:2 (2017): 113-130; on tweet production in Jakarta, see Semiocast, “Twitter reaches half a billion accounts,” (2012) accessed 20 April 2015, ; on Jakarta’s proximity to disaster, see the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, Disasters in Asia and the Pacific: 2015 Year in Review (2015), .

17

On the new normal, see Ibid., Bratton, 46.

18

The verification process through Twitter is based on the level of intent required to submit a flood report. Over the three years that the platform has been operational, there has not been a single incident of a false report.

19

See Ibid., Bratton.

20

Elie During, “Loose Coexistence: Technologies of Attention in the Age of the Post-Metropolis,” in Ibid., Hauptmann and Neidich, 267.

21

Ibid., 274.

22

William James, “Chapter XXIV: Instinct,” The Principles of Psychology (New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1890), .

23

Bruce Wexler, “Shaping the Environments that Shape Our Brains: A Long Term Perspective,” in Ibid., Hauptmann and Neidich, 143.

24

Geraldine Juárez, “Intercolonial Technogalactic,” Reverse Hallucinations in the Archipelago, eds. Anna-Sophie Springer and Etienne Turpin (Berlin: K. Verlag & Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 2017), 155.

25

Marc Jeannerod, foreward to What Should We Do with Our Brain? by Catherine Malabou, trans. Sebastian Rand (New York: Fordham University Press, 2008), xiv.

26

AbdouMaliq Simone, Jakarta, Drawing the City Near (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2014).







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