This is a text version of a keynote talk I was invited to give at an international symposium at York University in April 2026. I have included images of my slides that accompanied my talk. My talk was about thinking through what counts as ‘waste’, what counts as ‘work’ in what the symposium’s organizers called the ‘new global politics of disposability’ (read more here).Given my broader research interests and the non-consensual inclusion of my work into AI data training sets, I figure I have some license to play around with these tools to get a sense of what they do. So I decided to experiment with what is sometimes called ‘local AI’… (read more)The ‘end of geography’ has been part of the Silicon Valley tech mythos and marketing for decades. With the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, old-timey ‘capes-and-bays’ geography has come roaring back… (read more)
