Journal of the Cultural Studies Association
ABSTRACT #bottlesNbones is one part of a multi-site project, #trashNtoxicity examining the irremediable, abandoned, unrecycleable, and non-biodegradeable postnatural affects of human production.
Jamie "Skye" Bianco is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University. She is a queer, feminist and site-based digital media theorist, performer and practitioner whose multimodal work investigates ecologies of trash, toxicity, disaster, bodies and the extra-human agencies and affections produced by them. She composes and remixes still images, sound, video, animation, theory and lyrical prose in multimodal performative, web-based, computational/algorithmic and installation formats. Selected multimodal work appears in O-zone, The Petroleum Manga (Punctum, 2014) Debates in Digital Humanities (Minnesota, 2012), The Affective Turn (Duke, 2007), FibreCulture, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Comparative Literature Studies, and Rhizome, and she was selected as a local artist for the 2013 Carnegie International exhibition/catalogue. She is also Design Editor and Lead Designer for CSA’s Lateral and the co-organizer with Melissa Rogers of CSA’s inaugural makerSpace at the 2014 conference. She received a Ph.D. in women’s studies and English from the City University of New York.
View all of Jamie "Skye" Bianco's articles.David Stein: “Capital will not provide the necessary jobs for the current number of people, college graduates or not, unless it sees appropriate rates of profit in such an expenditure. As David Broderick, C.E.O. of U.S. Steel put it “U.S. Steel is in business to make profits, not to make steel.”[xiv] Or as the founder of the Apollo Group, the parent company of the University of Phoenix put it: “This is a corporation…Coming here is not a rite of passage. We’re not trying to develop [students’] or go in for that ‘expand their minds’ bullshit.”
Gillian Harkins and Erica Mieners: “For us greater specification, and more visibility, is key to moving college in prison programs from the interstices of institutional structure to a leverage point whose operation holds the potential to disrupt business as usual.”
David Stein: “Commoning, in this sense, is the practice against enclosure: the insistent struggle for means of subsistence and survival, plentitude and freedom.”
The “crisis” in the university is more accurately described as a transformation in the values associated with higher education, including a decreasing public stake in humanistic or arts education and increasing investment in job readiness and science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields across two and four year educational attainment levels.