This week’s readings were quite humourous, and I don’t believe in a way that was initially intentioned until the authors’ found themselves writing about matters that simply were absurd. I read Vormann’s critique as a matter-of-fact academic paper that stated the reality of waterfront infrastructure and its glossed-over practicalities. Paired with both Metcalf’s recount of…

READINGS Ben Metcalf, “American Heartworm” in The Baffler, 1998. Link to article.  Boris Vormann, “Toward an infrastructural critique of urban change: Obsolescence and changing perceptions of New York City’s waterfront” in City 19:2-3, (2015). Link to article.   Elizabeth Kolbert, “Down the river” in Under a white sky : the nature of the future, 2021. Link…