Tanner Talk with Dustin Edwards: Data in the Desert: Locating Digital Damage in Time, Place, and Culture
Dr. Edwards is a digital rhetoric scholar who attends to the material, infrastructural, and, increasingly, geological dimensions of rhetoric. In particular, his scholarly monograph Enduring Digital Damage: Rhetorical Reckonings for Planetary Survival (published by University of Alabama Press) articulates and performs a story-based approach that accounts for the entangled damages (ecological, climatic, colonial) of large-scale digital infrastructures. Following digital damage to two places in New Mexico (a Meta data center in Los Lunas and a copper mine in Grant County), the project examines how digital rhetoric is intimately woven to extractive industries. The stories of “the digital” told throughout the book unfold along multiple, often unexpected, threads: water rights, climate patterns, chronic illnesses, forced relocations, species extinctions, conditions of environmental racism, and much more. Yet, by posing the question of what happens after damage, the book also amplifies stories of refusal, resistance, and brilliant invention that insist this world can be otherwise. Event is open to Statewide via Zoom. Please register here: https://usu.zoom.us/meeting/register/xbttuxRPSTWRkCGXGDG9Sg
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Thursday, February 19, 2026 | 4:00 pm - 5:15 pmWhere
Mehdi Heravi Global Teaching and Learning CenterRoom: Carolyn Tanner Irish Pavilion (MHC 201)
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