Manitoba Chiefs Want Cellphone Revenue

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I found this via the blog of Sonny Assu, who is an amazing Vancouver artist.

I thought this was fascinating, not only that air becomes part of the discussion of natural resources (seems both strange and obvious) but also that this argument emerges from the context of cellphone signals that are passing through the air.

Notions of airspace are of course familiar- it seems a bit militarized, this metaphor, and countries always get really upset when people go in each other's airspaces, and it's something that extends from a material understanding of a territory and people's access to it. But this sensibility is usually extended to the analysis of something material that crosses these material boundaries, so that's something that is new here when the issue is about cellphone signals.

All these tiny little technological bits and pieces floating around - should they be conceptualized as pollution? Traffic? Maybe even as property? (Mutant property gone astray...maybe that brings us back to pollution...)

Carbon footprints, information airspace, so many things now that are about important, invisible things.