JaworskiSophia VtP Annotation: Buick City

The visualization shows how intensities of toxic contamination are treated as exceptions, and as “sites” to be remediated, rather than as sources of contamination which can migrate into water systems, the atmosphere, and into many lifeforms. It raises important questions about the consequences of scales of attention paid to places of the highest concentrations of contamination, rather than other distributions of toxicity which impact the surrounding community. Contributing a visualization of an entire city that is toxic allows for the scale of corporate toxic manufacturing and supply chains, such as GM, to be further queried. It shows the emplacement and displacement of these corporate forms of contamination on the earth.