{"id":2754,"date":"2010-05-25T20:00:47","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T01:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/?p=2754"},"modified":"2010-05-25T16:31:18","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T21:31:18","slug":"geology-as-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2010\/05\/geology-as-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"geology as infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Smudge Studio&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/smudgestudio.org\/smudge\/projects\/MIT\/timeviewer.html\">Geologic Time Viewer<\/a> re-casts the &#8220;official Geologic Time Scale&#8221; as not only a way of looking back into the past, but also a window into the present: &#8220;the materialities of every previous geologic epoch flow into the present-as-middle and give form to our daily lives.&#8221;  We learn, for instance, that iron infrastructures, like Manhattan Bridge, are built out of material laid down during the Precambrian; that it is Devonian oil which combusts in automobile engines; that East Coast brownstones are clad by Triassic stone; and that Cape Cod is an &#8220;ephemeral&#8221; Pleistocene landscape, &#8220;waiting for sea levels to rise and submerge it again&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smudge Studio&#8217;s Geologic Time Viewer re-casts the &#8220;official Geologic Time Scale&#8221; as not only a way of looking back into the past, but also a window into the present: &#8220;the materialities of every previous geologic epoch flow into the present-as-middle and give form to our daily lives.&#8221; We learn, for instance, that iron infrastructures, like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[245,848],"class_list":["post-2754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","tag-geology","tag-infrastructure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2755,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754\/revisions\/2755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}