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Theorizing the Contemporary

The Dust Kaleidoscope

By Jerry Zee

September 22, 2020

In April of 2001, years of drought, an unusually warm winter, and early spring Siberian jet winds coalesced in a massive dust storm over China’s interior. A dec... More

Theorizing the Contemporary

Downwind

By Jerry Zee

October 24, 2017

Consider a 2001 dust storm over China, captured in the impossible still of a photograph from the banal god’s-eye view (see Haraway 1988) of a NASA satellite. Th... More