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==Publications==
 
==Publications==
 
===Books, dossiers===
 
===Books, dossiers===
* ''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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* ''The New Downtown Library'', Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. [https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-new-downtown-library]
* ''[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. Review: [https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2019.463010 Kane] (Afterimage). [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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* ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=18530 Deep Mapping the Media City]'', Minneapolis, MN: 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]'', Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2017, 288 pp. [https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/code-and-clay-data-and-dirt Publisher]. Reviews: [https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2019.463010 Kane] (Afterimage), [https://sci-hub.se/10.1353/tech.2019.0054 Jackson] (Tech & Cult), [https://sci-hub.se/10.1080/17530350.2019.1573435 Umney] (J Cult Econ).
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* editor, [https://urbanomnibus.net/series/digital-frictions/ ''Urban Omnibus'': "Digital Frictions"], New York: Architectural League of New York, Sep 2019-Jan 2020.
 
* editor, [https://urbanomnibus.net/series/digital-frictions/ ''Urban Omnibus'': "Digital Frictions"], New York: Architectural League of New York, Sep 2019-Jan 2020.
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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, Oct 2019.
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* ''A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences'', New York: Princeton University Press, Aug 2021, 200 pp. [https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691208053/a-city-is-not-a-computer Publisher].
  
 
===Book chapters, papers, essays===
 
===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.
 
* [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.
 
* [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.
 
* [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.
 
* [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.
 
* [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.
 
* [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.
 
* [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.
 
* [https://placesjournal.org/article/interfacing-urban-intelligence/ "Interfacing Urban Intelligence"], ''Places'', 28 Apr 2014.
* "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://sci-hub.se/10.2752/174589314X13953118734742 "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.
 
* [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.
 
* [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.
 
* [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.
 
* [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.
 
* [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.
 
* "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.
 
* [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.
 
* [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.
 
* [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.
 
* [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.
 
* [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.
 
* [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/]
 
* "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/]
 
* "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.se/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/]
 
* [http://sci-hub.se/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.
 
* [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.
* [https://placesjournal.org/article/a-city-is-not-a-computer/ "A City Is Not a Computer"], ''Places'', Feb 2017.
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* [https://placesjournal.org/article/a-city-is-not-a-computer/ "A City Is Not a Computer"], ''Places'', Feb 2017; repr. in ''Historic Cities: Issues in Urban Conservation'', eds. Jeff Cody and Francesco Siravo, Los Angeles: J. P. Getty Museum, 2019.
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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/]
 
* "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.
 
* [https://placesjournal.org/article/closet-archive/ "Closet Archive: A stuffed history of the closet, where the “past becomes space”"], ''Places'', Jul 2017.
* [https://placesjournal.org/article/mappings-intelligent-agents/ "Mapping’s Intelligent Agents"], ''Places'', Sep 2017.
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* [https://placesjournal.org/article/mappings-intelligent-agents/ "Mapping's Intelligent Agents"], ''Places'', Sep 2017; repr. in ''Mapping and Politics in the Digital Age'', eds. Pol Bargués-Pedreny, David Chandler, and Elena Simon, Routledge, Nov 2018. [https://www.routledge.com/Mapping-and-Politics-in-the-Digital-Age/Bargues-Pedreny-Chandler-Simon/p/book/9780815357421 Publisher].
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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.
 
* [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://icd.wordsinspace.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/mattern_extractpreserve.pdf "Extract and Preserve: Underground Repositories for a Posthuman Future?"], ''New Geographies'' 9: "Posthuman", eds. Mariano Gomez Luque and Ghazal Jafari, Harvard University Press, and Actar, Jan 2018, pp 52-59. [https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/publication/new-geographies-09-posthuman/ Publisher]. [https://wordsinspace.net/extract-and-preserve-underground-repositories-for-a-posthuman-future/] [https://www.librarystack.org/extract-and-preserve-underground-repositories-for-a-posthuman-future/]
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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.
 
* [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.
 
* [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.
 
* [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.
 
* [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.
 
* [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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* with Urban Intelligence, [https://www.leoalmanac.org/auditing-urban-intelligence-interfacing-place-based-knowledge-urban-intelligence-the-new-school/ "Auditing Urban Intelligence: Interfacing Place-Based Knowledge"], ''Leonardo Electronic Almanac'' 22:4, Mar 2019.
 
* with Urban Intelligence, [https://www.leoalmanac.org/auditing-urban-intelligence-interfacing-place-based-knowledge-urban-intelligence-the-new-school/ "Auditing Urban Intelligence: Interfacing Place-Based Knowledge"], ''Leonardo Electronic Almanac'' 22:4, Mar 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.
 
* [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.
 
* [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.
 
* [https://placesjournal.org/article/fugitive-libraries/ "Fugitive Libraries"], ''Places'', Oct 2019.
* [https://wordsinspace.net/shannon/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/shannon-mattern-i-stand-in-my-place-3.pdf "The Gentle Wind Doth Move Visibly"], in ''I Stand in My Place with My Own Day Here: Site-Specific Art at The New School'', ed. Frances Richard, Duke University Press, 2019.
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* [https://wordsinspace.net/shannon/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/mattern_pages-from-ways-of-knowing-cities_final-spreads.pdf "Ether and Ore: An Archaeology of Urban Intelligences"], in ''Ways of Knowing Cities'', eds. Laura Kurgan and Dare Brawley, Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2019, pp 120-130.
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* [https://wordsinspace.net/shannon/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/shannon-mattern-i-stand-in-my-place-3.pdf "The Gentle Wind Doth Move Visibly"], in ''I Stand in My Place with My Own Day Here: Site-Specific Art at The New School'', ed. Frances Richard, Duke University Press, Oct 2019. [https://www.dukeupress.edu/i-stand-in-my-place-with-my-own-day-here Publisher].
* "Fluttering Code: A Cultural and Aesthetic History of the Split-Flap Display", ''Modes of Criticism'' 5, Eindhoven: Onomatopee, 2020, pp 49-63. [https://modesofcriticism.org/modes-of-criticism-5/]
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* [https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/artists-using-powerpoint-critique-rhetorical-strategies-tan-lin-tony-cokes-david-byrne-1202676971/ "Using PowerPoint, Artists Ask How Performative Presentations Shape Our Thinking"], ''Art in America'', 5 Feb 2020.
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* [https://www.arch.columbia.edu/books/reader/483-ways-of-knowing-cities#reader-anchor-11 "Ether and Ore: An Archaeology of Urban Intelligences"], in ''Ways of Knowing Cities'', eds. Laura Kurgan and Dare Brawley, Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, Dec 2019, pp 120-130, [https://icd.wordsinspace.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/mattern_pages-from-ways-of-knowing-cities_final-spreads.pdf PDF]. [https://www.arch.columbia.edu/books/catalog/483-ways-of-knowing-cities Publisher].
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* "Fluttering Code: A Cultural and Aesthetic History of the Split-flap Display", ''Modes of Criticism'' 5: "Design Systems", Eindhoven: Onomatopee, Dec 2019, pp 49-63. [https://modesofcriticism.org/modes-of-criticism-5/] [https://wordsinspace.net/fluttering-codes-a-cultural-and-aesthetic-history-of-the-split-flap-display/]
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* "Auto-Advance: The Art of the Slide Deck", ''Art in America'' 108:2, Feb 2020, pp 64-69; posted as [https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/artists-using-powerpoint-critique-rhetorical-strategies-tan-lin-tony-cokes-david-byrne-1202676971/ "Using PowerPoint, Artists Ask How Performative Presentations Shape Our Thinking"], ''Art in America'', 5 Feb 2020.
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* [https://placesjournal.org/article/post-it-note-city/ "Post-It Note City"], ''Places'', Feb 2020.
 
* [https://placesjournal.org/article/post-it-note-city/ "Post-It Note City"], ''Places'', Feb 2020.
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* [https://amodern.net/article/encrypted-repositories/ "Encrypted Repositories: Techniques of Secret Storage, From Desks to Databases"], ''Amodern'' 9, Apr 2020.
 
* [https://amodern.net/article/encrypted-repositories/ "Encrypted Repositories: Techniques of Secret Storage, From Desks to Databases"], ''Amodern'' 9, Apr 2020.
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* [https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/andrew-cuomo-covid-briefings-powerpoint-slideshow-authority-1202683735/ "Andrew Cuomo’s COVID-19 Briefings Draw on the Persuasive Authority of Powerpoint"], ''Art in America'', 13 Apr 2020.
 
* [https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/andrew-cuomo-covid-briefings-powerpoint-slideshow-authority-1202683735/ "Andrew Cuomo’s COVID-19 Briefings Draw on the Persuasive Authority of Powerpoint"], ''Art in America'', 13 Apr 2020.
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* [https://placesjournal.org/article/urban-auscultation-or-perceiving-the-action-of-the-heart/ "Urban Auscultation; or, Perceiving the Action of the Heart"], ''Places'', Apr 2020.
 
* [https://placesjournal.org/article/urban-auscultation-or-perceiving-the-action-of-the-heart/ "Urban Auscultation; or, Perceiving the Action of the Heart"], ''Places'', Apr 2020.
* [https://wordsinspace.net/shannon/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/mattern_calculativecomposition_oxfordhandbookai.pdf "Calculative Composition: The Ethics of Automating Design"], in ''The Oxford Handbook of Ethics of AI'', eds. Markus Dubber, Frank Pasquale, and Sunit Das, Oxford University Press, 2020.
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** [https://10.0.79.172/rua.v26i2.8661453 "Auscultação urbana: ou percebendo a ação do coração"], trans. Eduardo Harry Luersen, ''RUA'' 26:2, Campinas: LABEURB, Nov 2020, pp 385-409. {{br-pt}}
* with Emily Bowe and Erin Simmons, [https://doi.org/10.1177%2F2053951720939236 "Learning from Lines: Critical COVID Visualizations and the Quarantine Quotidian"], ''Big Data & Society'', Jul 2020.
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* with Emily Bowe and Erin Simmons, [https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951720939236 "Learning from Lines: Critical COVID Visualizations and the Quarantine Quotidian"], ''Big Data & Society'', Jul 2020.
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* [https://wordsinspace.net/static/56f7db288527250b47ed37a51c47edc9/mattern_calculativecomposition_oxfordhandbookai.pdf "Calculative Composition: The Ethics of Automating Design"], in ''The Oxford Handbook of Ethics of AI'', eds. Markus Dubber, Frank Pasquale, and Sunit Das, Oxford University Press, Jul 2020. [https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190067397.013.37]
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* [https://sci-hub.se/10.1177/0263276420958052 "The Spectacle of Data: A Century of Fairs, ''Fiches'', and Fantasies"], ''Theory, Culture & Society'' 37:7-8, Oct 2020, pp 133-155. [https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0263276420958052]
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* [https://monoskop.org/images/8/84/Bexte_Peter_Leeker_Martina_Hrsg_Ein_Medium_namens_McLuhan_37_Befragungen_eines_Klassikers_2020.pdf#page=54 "Shannon Mattern"], in ''Ein Medium namens McLuhan. 37 Befragungen eines Klassikers'', eds. Peter Bexte and Martina Leeker, Lüneburg: meson press, 2020, pp 52-53.
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* [https://placesjournal.org/article/purity-and-security-a-cultural-history-of-plexiglass/ "Purity and Security: Towards A Cultural History of Plexiglass"], ''Places'', Dec 2020.
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* "Afterword", in ''Crowdsourcing, Constructing and Collaborating Methods and Social Impacts of Mapping the World Today'', eds. Siddharth Peter deSouza, Nida Rehman, and Saba Sharma, Bloomsbury India, Dec 2020.
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* [https://placesjournal.org/article/how-to-map-nothing/ "How to Map Nothing"], ''Places'', Mar 2021.
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* "The Pulse of Global Passage: Listening to Logistics", in ''Assembly Codes: The Logistics of Media'', eds. Matthew Curtis Hockenberry, Nicole Starosielski, and Susan Marjorie Zieger, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, Sep 2021. [https://www.dukeupress.edu/assembly-codes]
  
 
* more: [https://placesjournal.org/author/shannon-mattern/ writings in ''Places''],  [http://medium.com/@shannonmattern writings on ''Medium.com'']
 
* more: [https://placesjournal.org/author/shannon-mattern/ writings in ''Places''],  [http://medium.com/@shannonmattern writings on ''Medium.com'']
  
 
==Interviews==
 
==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.
 
* 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.
 
* 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.
 
* 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.
* [https://wordsinspace.net/shannon/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/choimattern_wovencircuits.pdf "Woven Circuits: An Interview with Taeyoon Choi"], in ''Bauhaus Futures'', eds. Mike Ananny, Laura Forlano, and Molly Wright Steenson, MIT Press, 2019, pp 215-223.
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* [https://icd.wordsinspace.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/choimattern_wovencircuits.pdf "Woven Circuits: An Interview with Taeyoon Choi"], in ''Bauhaus Futures'', eds. Mike Ananny, Laura Forlano, and Molly Wright Steenson, MIT Press, Oct 2019, pp 215-223.
  
 
==Links==
 
==Links==

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Shannon Mattern is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at The New School in New York. For 14.5 years she served as a faculty member in The New School’s School of Media Studies. 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. A City Is Not a Computer is under contract with Princeton University Press. Shannon Mattern has also written several dozen journal articles and book chapters, and she 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 contributes to public design and interactive projects and exhibitions, too. And from 2006 to 2009 she directed the 600-student Graduate Program in Media Studies. She lives in New York City. (2020)

Publications

Books, dossiers

  • The New Downtown Library, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. [1]
  • A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences, New York: Princeton University Press, Aug 2021, 200 pp. Publisher.

Book chapters, papers, essays

  • "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. [2]
  • "Equipment for Redemptive Living", in Correctional Collections, ed. Joel Stoehr, New York: Parsons School of Design, 2016. [3]
  • "A City Is Not a Computer", Places, Feb 2017; repr. in Historic Cities: Issues in Urban Conservation, eds. Jeff Cody and Francesco Siravo, Los Angeles: J. P. Getty Museum, 2019.
  • "Sonic Archaeologies", in The Sound Studies Companion, ed. Michael Bull, New York: Routledge, 2017. [5]
  • "Fluttering Code: A Cultural and Aesthetic History of the Split-flap Display", Modes of Criticism 5: "Design Systems", Eindhoven: Onomatopee, Dec 2019, pp 49-63. [8] [9]
  • "Shannon Mattern", in Ein Medium namens McLuhan. 37 Befragungen eines Klassikers, eds. Peter Bexte and Martina Leeker, Lüneburg: meson press, 2020, pp 52-53.
  • "Afterword", in Crowdsourcing, Constructing and Collaborating Methods and Social Impacts of Mapping the World Today, eds. Siddharth Peter deSouza, Nida Rehman, and Saba Sharma, Bloomsbury India, Dec 2020.
  • "The Pulse of Global Passage: Listening to Logistics", in Assembly Codes: The Logistics of Media, eds. Matthew Curtis Hockenberry, Nicole Starosielski, and Susan Marjorie Zieger, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, Sep 2021. [12]

Interviews

Links