Shannon Christine Mattern

"Explores the material assemblages and infrastructures that have shaped the media city by taking archaeology literally-using techniques like excavation and mapping to discover the modern city's roots in time."

The idea behind the book is to ask what would it be like to live in a city administered using the business model of Amazon (or Apple, IKEA, Pornhub, Spotify, Tinder, Uber, and more), or a city where critical public services are delivered by these companies?