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Effortless Slippage
Ingrid Burrington
Architecture Essay
Posted: May 25, 2018
Category
Technology, Data & Information
Subjects
Maps, Networks, Infrastructure, Dematerialization
Light Industry: Toxic Waste and Pastoral Capitalism
Ingrid Burrington
There are two plaques at 844 E. Charleston Road in Palo Alto—one from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and one from the state of California—commemorating it as the place where Fairchild Semiconductor revolutionized computer manufacturing in 1959. While the IEEE plaque emphasizes the ingenious planar process developed by Fairchild’s Jean Hoerni and Robert Noyce, the state of California’s plaque documents this site as the birthplace of the first “commercially…
e-flux Journal
Posted: June 1, 2016
Category
Technology, Architecture
Subjects
Geography, Pollution & Toxicity, Law & Justice