In which ways do conventional data cultures and practices of archiving preclude, neglect, and overlook the interconnectedness between humans, time scales, and environments? An experiment in ethnographic story-writing.

Post-Natural Histories of Maize and Their Companions Along the Mississippi River

Sociologist Tahani Nadim introduces a collaborative exercise in experimental, ethnographic story-writing. Drawing on art, literature, and filmmaking, this research is focused on maize—the cyclical and seasonal lives of which, Nadim argues, configure socio-technical intimacies that cut across different times, both deep and human.