A. RiveraChristians may be in church today and/or having Easter dinners. Meanwhile, this happy heathen is working the #ReferenceDesk today. In person or virtually, you have questions, I've got answers. . . maybe. 🐣🐇
Another Sunday at #ReferenceDesk. While #MercuryRetrograde did end on Friday, 3/20, it was quite a pain, and I'm not ruling anything out yet until we get out of the post shadow period.
Anyhow, new week, we'll take it day at a time.
Sunday at #ReferenceDesk. Went around building changing time on clocks, except for couple that have dead batteries, and I got wait til they get ordered (or I say fuck it and bring a couple from home).
mk30any recommendations for modernist depictions of agriculture and food production?
i've included some example images below.
some keywords:
* mechanized agriculture
* industrial farming
* industrial food production
* farm as factory
* farm modernization
* chemical agriculture
* green revolution
i've got the following materials on my to-read list:
* "every farm a factory: the industrial ideal in american agriculture" by deborah fitzgerald
* Ch. 8 of "seeing like a state": "Taming Nature: An Agriculture of Legibility and Simplicity" by james c. scott
* "Farming according to 'the laws of beauty': Aesthetics and agriculture" by david cooper (https://www.academia.edu/14380031/Farming_according_to_the_laws_of_beauty_Aesthetics_and_agriculture)
* "the american technological sublime" by david nye (not sure if it has anything about agriculture specifically)
* "the machine in the garden: technology and the pastoral" by leo marx (update: i've now skimmed this work and it seems to be concerned with an earlier era, not the high modernist period)
if you're familiar with any written works looking at this kind of aesthetic specifically, i'd love to hear about it.
also, if you have suggestions for archives (online or irl) that might have more materials like this, i'm all ears.
#sundaylibrarian #history #art #ArtHistory #agriculture #GreenRevolution #food #aesthetics #modernism #industrialization #ResearchLibrarian
Once again at #ReferenceDesk for the #SundayLibrarian shift. I will be here 'til 9p or so.
Another Sunday at #ReferenceDesk. I have a research consult later this evening, some classes to prep for next week, and some administrivia.
Keeps me off the streets. 🛣️
Working #ReferenceDesk. My student worker did not show, so I am running the show on my own at this hour. Whether virtual or in person, I got you covered.
#SuperbOwl 🦉 time tends to be lower traffic, but we still get some traffic. I have 2 consults scheduled.
Another Sunday at #ReferenceDesk. So far mostly quiet, so I can get some administrivia done as well as prep for some upcoming research consults and classes I am teaching.
Locally. The sleet and freezing rain came last night. We got at least half an inch of ice on the ground, and it is still lightly raining. Around 31F locally, but expected to drop temp overnight.
No #SundayLibrarian today. I still expect 2hr. delay tomorrow, but we'll see.
Working the #ReferenceDesk as the #SundayLibrarian. Usually I can leave my student worker at the desk and stay in the office, but today I have a new worker, so I need to be close by.
I'll be a bit busy given I have 2 consults, and other administrivia to complete.