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Misria Shaik Ali

Post-Doctoral Fellow, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

Contributing Editor, Platypus, The CASTAC Blog

About Misria

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.

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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. (more…) (read more...)