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Annotated images for Visualizing Toxic Places project focusing on public lands discourse/conflict in the United States.

This photo essay tracks toxicity through multiple scales, from the molecular to the global, and the multiple technoscientific investments necessary to visualize its workings.  The entry point is what are called "pattern recognition receptors" (PRR), molecular structures on the surface of cells that are a key mechanism in the complex signal transduction pathways through which toxins exert their (not always deterministic) effects. These "semiotic bridges" (a term used by biosemioticians, biologist/philosophers who think through Bateson [with his interest in "patterns that connect"],