This project is driven by the emergence (or reemergence) of water as an important register for confict worldwide and the resulting problematization of what we might call, following Jacques Ranciére, the sense (a regime of meaning) and sense (a mode of sensory presentation) of water. In part to its liquidity or, more accurately, to a mutability in form that goes beyond its liquid state, water poses challenges. Water’s lack of fxity and proper place—the difficulty in containing it or fencing it in—has led it to be termed an “uncooperative commodity.” Thus, it is often through infrastructures such as buckets, pipes, bottles, dams, and boats that we access water, and it is also through such infrastructures that water is shaped and that the means of accessing water can be privatized. My wager is to propose written and visual forms as yet another infrastructure of access to water and to think about how they inform the two senses of water.

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The book is to be organized around different bodies of water -  rivers, oceans, lakes, aquifers, rain - as well as the absence of water in drought.

 

So far I've written two pieces that move through drought, rivers and rain.

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“An Expanse of Water.” In Liquid Ecologies in the Arts, edited by Lisa Blackmore and Liliana Gomez. Routledge, 2020.

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"An Excess of Visibility, a Scarcity of Water." Discourse, vol. 43 no. 2, 2021: 189-215.