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A Future Archaeology of the Mobile Telecoms Industry

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Ethnography of a design studio in the mobile telecoms industry

This series of three visual poems attempts to distill something of the visceral experience of a moment in my ethnography. Moving from prose, to poem, to words, these forms of writing are an attempt to shift academic literary style from description through to abstraction. For it is sometimes only in the spaces and in the gaps between that more intangible (but no less embodied) ethnographic moments may be expressed.