Pandora's Signal Boxes

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Mattern, Shannon
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2016
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01A - Journal article
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Acoustic Infrastructure
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5
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3
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8
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Included here, dear reader, is a discussion that took place between media and design author and scholar Shannon Mattern and perennial continent. probationer Jamie Allen. The conversation occurred on a rather rainy and cold day, on a walk that Shannon and Jamie took through Basel, Switzerland, toward the Central Signal Box building. Shannon Mattern had come to Switzerland at Jamie’s invitation, as part of a lecture series called “Medialogue”, held jointly by the Critical Media Lab Basel and the Medienwissenschaft group at Universität Basel. The Signal Box is an infrastructural landmark that delimits a transition between residential and (formerly) industrial zones in Kanton Basel-Stadt. The building was designed by locals, stalwart innovators and ‘starchitects’ Herzog and Herzog & de Meuron, whose numerous offices and archives in Basel are all but a few minutes’ tram-ride away.
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conversation, infrastructure, media
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2159-9920
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English
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Published
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Peer review of the complete publication
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Gold
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'https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/'
Citation
Mattern, S. (2016). Pandora’s Signal Boxes. Continent, 5(3), 8. https://doi.org/10.26041/fhnw-4665