Author Archives: Misria Shaik Ali

I am currently a Post-Doctoral Fellow at IIT-Delhi. I hold PhD in Science and Technology Studies (STS) from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. My research advances Critical Nuclear Studies and the concept of Epistemologies of Neglect cohering STS, Feminist Science, Postcolonial & Sensory Studies, Agnotology, etc.
A foot of a farmer walking on an agricultural field bedded with dry gravel that is reddish-orange. A black irrigation drip pipe, that is about 12 mm in diameter, runs horizontally on the ground and the farmer's feet is placed along the drip pipe, horizontally. The farmer is wearing a simple yellowish-orange rubber slipper that seems mildly tainted with mud. His foot has slipped off his feet as he has stepped on the drip pipe. A drop of water is dripping from the hole in the drip pipe.

Witnessing the Porous World

Pores compose materials around us such as gypsum, clay, lead, concrete, whose strength and durability are paradoxically analyzed in their capacity to resist porosity, or contain. Anthropogenic engagements with pores hold this ambivalence–resisting to perceive pore as a passage into the world and reducing them to their instrumental capacity to hold and contain. (read more...)