In This Issue


The End of Abundance: Water Infrastructure and the Culture of Cornucopianism
Jason M. Kelly writes on the freshwater crisis of the Anthropocene, designing water infrastructure for "peak use," and the narrative of green lawns.

On Living in a Flood Plain and an Internet Desert
Lydia See's photo essay on flood warnings and dropped signals in the cricks and hollers of Appalachia, a place where communities use spotty internet to work toward liberation.

GIFs in the Genome: Francis Crick, Eadweard Muybridge, and the Photographic Frame
Molly Kottemann on storing GIFs in a DNA archive, framing living things, and the structure and sequence of information flow

all we did for the moon / New Rural Landscapes
Asiya Wadud's ekphrastic poem "all we did for the moon / New Rural Landscapes," after Alessandro Poli and Superstudio's photomontage "New Rural Landscapes"

Ask Fortunato!
KJ Naum imagines what it’s like to live (and die) with a literal crick in the neck, dispensing advice via Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado.”

Deciphering the Graven Messages of the Dead
Allison C. Meier on creaks, hauntings, and cemeteries: weapons against forgetting
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