{"title":"Languages of Art Writing: A Discursive Heat Map","authors":"Sara B. Green, Nathan Stobaugh","doi":"10.1162/thld_a_00792","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/thld_a_00792","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40067,"journal":{"name":"Thresholds","volume":"1 1","pages":"80-85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45142056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
So Jung Lee, Caroline Amstutz, Natalie Pearl, Tim Cousin, Patricia Dueñas Gerritsen, Emily Wissemann, Susan Williams, Lauren Gideonse
HOT TAKE A warm touch and, more generally, an intimate bodily relation to these objects and the material properties of different wood species are essential to both their making and use. Each proposal is situated within a lineage of localized radiant heating—foot stoves, warming pans, bed warmers, bainmaries, warming tables, and water bottles. These typologies have been relegated to the past as conventional forced air systems succeeded in creating monotonous indoor space. If “the machine is always social before it is technical,” then these
{"title":"Warm/Wild Wood","authors":"So Jung Lee, Caroline Amstutz, Natalie Pearl, Tim Cousin, Patricia Dueñas Gerritsen, Emily Wissemann, Susan Williams, Lauren Gideonse","doi":"10.1162/thld_a_00794","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/thld_a_00794","url":null,"abstract":"HOT TAKE A warm touch and, more generally, an intimate bodily relation to these objects and the material properties of different wood species are essential to both their making and use. Each proposal is situated within a lineage of localized radiant heating—foot stoves, warming pans, bed warmers, bainmaries, warming tables, and water bottles. These typologies have been relegated to the past as conventional forced air systems succeeded in creating monotonous indoor space. If “the machine is always social before it is technical,” then these","PeriodicalId":40067,"journal":{"name":"Thresholds","volume":"1 1","pages":"90-95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48956029","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The explosion of new technologies that emerged from the energy crises of the 1970s produced a number of forays into new forms of energy generation. This is the story of one project of this era that sought—maybe unconsciously—to invert the standard model, relocating energy production from an inscrutable position at the urban periphery to a highly legible, even participatory position at the urban center. The story of its inception, success, and eventual demise paints a picture of the US’s occasional but often short-lived flirtation with small-scale, zero-carbon renewable energy. Perhaps more importantly, it also offers a provocation for how small-scale, localized energy systems might become situated, legible, and participatory within urban areas.
{"title":"Sunbath","authors":"Jake Boswell","doi":"10.1162/thld_a_00776","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/thld_a_00776","url":null,"abstract":"The explosion of new technologies that emerged from the energy crises of the 1970s produced a number of forays into new forms of energy generation. This is the story of one project of this era that sought—maybe unconsciously—to invert the standard model, relocating energy production from an inscrutable position at the urban periphery to a highly legible, even participatory position at the urban center. The story of its inception, success, and eventual demise paints a picture of the US’s occasional but often short-lived flirtation with small-scale, zero-carbon renewable energy. Perhaps more importantly, it also offers a provocation for how small-scale, localized energy systems might become situated, legible, and participatory within urban areas.","PeriodicalId":40067,"journal":{"name":"Thresholds","volume":"1 1","pages":"40-48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46868695","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hunting Thermal Vermin: An Ethnographic Sculpture of Data Center Cooling","authors":"Steven Gonzalez Monserrate","doi":"10.1162/thld_a_00790","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/thld_a_00790","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40067,"journal":{"name":"Thresholds","volume":"1 1","pages":"60-61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44587051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In 1932, on the fiftieth anniversary of New York steam service’s inauguration, New York Steam Corporation (NYSC) published a drawing to illustrate how steam was generated, distributed, and utilized in the city. On the spread reproduced in Figure 1, a boiler station stands against a generic apartment building. A blownup sectional perspective of the steam main connects these two buildings. Rather than lying underground as a bare pipe, the steam main is placed in a conduit constructed out of hollow tiles, mineral wool, and asbestos. At the apartment building, the pipes snaked beneath the floor and inside the wall, entering each room as private fixtures: radiators, gate valves, meters, and dispensers. Despite each room’s apparent independence, the steam pipes reveal an inadvertent collectivity. They not only connect the faceless tenants but also indicate a broader landscape of supply and service that go far beyond the apartment building’s enclosure.
{"title":"Heat Consumed, Heat Wasted: Pipe Politics and the Migration of the Hearth in New York City, 1877–1882","authors":"Jia-Rui Weng","doi":"10.1162/thld_a_00783","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/thld_a_00783","url":null,"abstract":"In 1932, on the fiftieth anniversary of New York steam service’s inauguration, New York Steam Corporation (NYSC) published a drawing to illustrate how steam was generated, distributed, and utilized in the city. On the spread reproduced in Figure 1, a boiler station stands against a generic apartment building. A blownup sectional perspective of the steam main connects these two buildings. Rather than lying underground as a bare pipe, the steam main is placed in a conduit constructed out of hollow tiles, mineral wool, and asbestos. At the apartment building, the pipes snaked beneath the floor and inside the wall, entering each room as private fixtures: radiators, gate valves, meters, and dispensers. Despite each room’s apparent independence, the steam pipes reveal an inadvertent collectivity. They not only connect the faceless tenants but also indicate a broader landscape of supply and service that go far beyond the apartment building’s enclosure.","PeriodicalId":40067,"journal":{"name":"Thresholds","volume":"1 1","pages":"214-225"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49510345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The bean pie is made of just a few essential ingredients: white beans, sugar, butter, cinnamon, pie crust, and—most importantly—grit, that jagged grain of blues, tragedy, and generational pain that has textured Black American history from the outset. Perhaps more than any other signifier, the bean pie has become representative of the Nation of Islam (NOI), a Black religious and political organization that at one time was America’s largest Muslim cohort. Of course, food is never just food: what we eat represents a complex entanglement of ideas, customs, histories, and relationships.
{"title":"Beyond Bowties & Bean Pies: A Material Analytic Approach to Eating & Meaning-making in the Nation of Islam","authors":"Christopher Joshua Benton","doi":"10.1162/thld_a_00782","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/thld_a_00782","url":null,"abstract":"The bean pie is made of just a few essential ingredients: white beans, sugar, butter, cinnamon, pie crust, and—most importantly—grit, that jagged grain of blues, tragedy, and generational pain that has textured Black American history from the outset. Perhaps more than any other signifier, the bean pie has become representative of the Nation of Islam (NOI), a Black religious and political organization that at one time was America’s largest Muslim cohort. Of course, food is never just food: what we eat represents a complex entanglement of ideas, customs, histories, and relationships.","PeriodicalId":40067,"journal":{"name":"Thresholds","volume":"1 1","pages":"204-213"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48404232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Goblin modernism combined the abject side of closedloop biosystems thinking with the basic functionalism of modernist thought. This was the architecture associated with 1970s environmentalism, which came with a rigid moral aesthetic of individual autonomy and a solutionist mindset. However righthearted in rejecting the warmongering and pollution of industrialized capitalism, the architecture of 1970s environmentalism did not have a vision for the future of society apart from offgrid life. This movement idolized individual dropout from mass culture, selfreliance, and distrust of government. The New Alchemists compared their fish tank poopcycling greenhouses to Gothic churches in section drawings, and The Whole Earth Catalog enabled DIY survivalist fantasies with consumer convenience as a prerequisite that hypocritically rejected consumer culture and pop. It left a legacy of survivors who are, at best, obscure hermit gurus and, at worst, neoplantationists. The 2020s Goblincore lifestyle aesthetic represents a new fascination with things that are growing, decaying, living, dirty, moist, smelly, leaky, and ugly. The aesthetic presents itself as an offshoot of Cottagecore, looking beyond pastoral visions of the simple life to the slimy dark side. Both could be simply harmless fantasies of choice, safe worlds to escape to in the face of realworld systemic failure. Is the new goblin an aesthetic without an ethic? Conversely, in an earnestly postcapitalist 2020s, degrowth is an ethic without an aesthetic—yet. “Degrowth is a planned reduction of energy and resource use designed to bring the econ-
{"title":"High Tech Nu-Goblin Modernism","authors":"Gabriel Cira","doi":"10.1162/thld_a_00787","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/thld_a_00787","url":null,"abstract":"Goblin modernism combined the abject side of closedloop biosystems thinking with the basic functionalism of modernist thought. This was the architecture associated with 1970s environmentalism, which came with a rigid moral aesthetic of individual autonomy and a solutionist mindset. However righthearted in rejecting the warmongering and pollution of industrialized capitalism, the architecture of 1970s environmentalism did not have a vision for the future of society apart from offgrid life. This movement idolized individual dropout from mass culture, selfreliance, and distrust of government. The New Alchemists compared their fish tank poopcycling greenhouses to Gothic churches in section drawings, and The Whole Earth Catalog enabled DIY survivalist fantasies with consumer convenience as a prerequisite that hypocritically rejected consumer culture and pop. It left a legacy of survivors who are, at best, obscure hermit gurus and, at worst, neoplantationists. The 2020s Goblincore lifestyle aesthetic represents a new fascination with things that are growing, decaying, living, dirty, moist, smelly, leaky, and ugly. The aesthetic presents itself as an offshoot of Cottagecore, looking beyond pastoral visions of the simple life to the slimy dark side. Both could be simply harmless fantasies of choice, safe worlds to escape to in the face of realworld systemic failure. Is the new goblin an aesthetic without an ethic? Conversely, in an earnestly postcapitalist 2020s, degrowth is an ethic without an aesthetic—yet. “Degrowth is a planned reduction of energy and resource use designed to bring the econ-","PeriodicalId":40067,"journal":{"name":"Thresholds","volume":"1 1","pages":"49-51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42093470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eduardo Gascón Alvarez, Jaya Manideep Rebbagondla, C. T. Mueller, L. Norford
, enhancing the thermal performance of lightweight structural elements that achieve thermal comfort with minimal material impact. 2 🔥
，增强轻质结构元件的热性能，以最小的材料冲击实现热舒适。2🔥
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