COMS 200 Lecture 10: WEEK 6 coms 210

• School: McGill University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMS 200
• Professor: Christopher Gutierrez

Document Summary

Lisa parks" around the antenna tree: the politics of infrastructural visibility. Defining the antenna tree: a node-centric and materialist approach to the study of infrastructure. The antenna tree is a cell tower that is disguised as a tree. Paradoxical as it draws attention to the materiality of communicative infrastructure, through a deliberate attempt to conceal it. Individuals only become aware of technologies when they are made aware of them. It is only when the technology becomes visible and threatening that individuals get angry. It is only when the individual becomes aware of the cell tower do they get angry, though it existing in privacy seems to not disrupt the comfort of the public. Only when they are broken, inconveniencing, or ugly do people remember their presence.