Visualizing Toxic Subjects

Stephanie Narrow: Admitted at: Calexico, Calif.

This image encourages a conversation about the state's role in creating and managing toxicity. Such an ID card would support James Scott's idea of state legibility of its subjects. Read more

Stephanie Narrow: Found Image: Beijing Before and After the Smog

This image immediately brings to mind news stories I read in the months leading up to 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics. Many athletes chose to not particpate because of the poor air quality, for fear...Read more

Chae Yoo: Mapping Burn Pits

This image is ethnographically intriguing because it demonstrates what sort of visual tools the informants utilize to delineate their own experiences of risk and vulnerability. I appreciated this...Read more

Stephanie Narrow: Created Image: Freeway Pollution - How Close is Too Close?

To get at my earlier questions about class, how can we collage this image with a Zillow type visualization that shows relative property prices of developments in this area? How can that help us to...Read more

Alice Chen: Hegemonic Heteronormativity

Anger and sadness were my initial responses to this image. I think these emotions were evoked not only because of the subject matter, but because of my own personal connection to Taiwan, having...Read more

Chae Yoo: Visualizing Lead Risk

This image communicates the 'potential' of lead poisoning. I appreciated this image as an ethnographic object because, as the author points out, it represents the gap between reality and public...Read more

Fred Ariel Hernandez: The Asthma Files Homepage, Nov 26, 2018

I am reminded of the phrase "information overload." I think this image is questioning the form or organization as it is difficult to read the print and are forced to focus on the placement of...Read more

Stephanie Narrow: Making Molecular Identity

This is the first image in your dataset that includes human subjects. Given that your other visualizations show data sets and visualizationsn of micro subjects, how does the inclusion of human...Read more

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