Scholars Dr. Kwame Edwin Otu, Jaden Morales and Kai Knight ('17) discuss complex issues around e-waste.
Choi Auditorium, Â鶹ÊÓƵ Campus
This event is free and open to the public. No RSVP required.
Join the Media Arts and Culture Department and Â鶹ÊÓƵ Arts for a panel discussion with Dr. Kwame Edwin Otu, Jaden Morales and Kai Knight ('17). This event is part of the MAC Cinematheque program season Analog@Â鶹ÊÓƵ: Race, Sex, Technological Obsolescence.
The 4-part event series runs in conjunction with the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Arts/Getty PST ART exhibition
It takes 400 to 1,000 years for a single toner cartridge to decompose. Although electronic waste (e-waste) refers to a discarded product at the end of its useful life, the conundrum underpinning electronic devices—both digital and analog—like the toner cartridge is that their toxic imprint on the environment extends long after their stated usefulness. Anthropologist Dr. Kwame Edwin Otu, environmental studies scholar Jaden Morales, and chemist Kai Knight will share their respective work on the social and sexual logics of e-waste across Ghana and Puerto Rico, and discuss why plastic does not degrade. Bringing together humanistic and scientific approaches to e-waste, this panel foregrounds the quandary that what many love and miss—analog technology—also inaugurated irreparable forms of toxicity and waste.
The 2024-25 Cinematheque series is organized by the Media Arts & Culture Department and Â鶹ÊÓƵ Arts in conjunction with the Center for Community-Based Learning and American Studies Department, with generous support from the Remsen Bird Fund and Mellon Foundation.
This is a Core 99 event.
This event is taking place at Choi Auditorium, located on the second floor of Johnson Hall, on Â鶹ÊÓƵ's campus. There is free street parking on Campus Road along all entrances to the college. You can find
