Week 7:  Environmental Media, Habitual Media

March 16

Jussi Parikka, “Materiality: Grounds of Media and Culture,” in A Geology of Media (2015)

Kate Crawford, “Earth,” in Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence (2021)

John Durham Peters, “Introduction,” in The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media (2015)



7pm screening: Early Cinema Shorts



March 18

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media (2017) (selection)

Hito Steyerl, “In Free Fall: A Thought Experiment on Vertical Perspective,” e-flux journal (2011)






Hito Steyerl, In Free Fall