Figure 2 Illustrative use of program comments in a so-called Hello, World! program, a common demonstration program (or first program written by a novice programmer) that displays the phrase “Hello world!” All comments begin with a double forward slash (//). More

Plate 5: Afghanistan I , In August 1998 , the US announced “Infinite Reach,” antiterrorist missile strikes against targets in Afghanistan and the Sudan. According to William Blum, “from the 1970s to the 80s Afghanistan had a government committed to bringing the underdeveloped country More

Figure 11 Feels good iteration of Pepe the Frog used as an example in a blog post by San Luis Obispo High School Journalism. www.slohsexpressions.com/2015/05/20/dank-meme-of-the-week-pepe-the-frog/ More

Plate 2: Sue Coe, US Military Successfully Bombs a Mental Hospital in Grenada, 1984 , Oil on paper, 44 × 37.5”, Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Courtesy of the artist. More

Plate 3: Haiti , 1959 (for Aristide, Stan Goff, and my father), “The US military mission in Haiti, to train the troops of noted dictator Francois Duvalier, used its air, sea and ground power to smash an attempt to overthrow Duvalier by a small group of Haitians aided by some Cubans and other More

Plate 4: Shifa Pharmaceutical Plant, Sudan , August 20, 1998, “US Military Strike on a Chemical Weapons Plant.” The US government inaccurately thought the pharmaceutical plant was producing chemical weapons for Osama bin Laden. “The El-Shifa pharmaceutical plant had raised Sudanese medicinal More

Figure 7 An anonymous Weibo user adapts the Tank Man meme using the popular and familiar graphic iconography of the characters in the Angry Birds game. Using popular images increases the shareability among users and potentially children. Attributed to Weibo More

Figure 12 Feels bad, feels mad, feels good iterations of Pepe the Frog used as an example in a blog post by San Luis Obispo High School Journalism. www.slohsexpressions.com/2015/05/20/dank-meme-of-the-week-pepe-the-frog/ More

Figure 1   Robert M. Bednar, Sign/shrine, NM-518 North, near Las Vegas, New Mexico, USA, December 2010. Photograph courtesy of the author More

Plate 8: Vieques Island, Puerto Rico (Detail). On April 19, 1999 an errant 500 lb US bomb kills David Sares Rodriguez, a 35-year-old security guard, and seriously injures four others. Over 267 depleted uranium-tipped bombs have been fired on this island. The US has been dropping bombs More

Figure 2 The finished vases are sized in relation to the amount of waste created in the production of three items of technology that use rare earth: a smartphone, a featherweight laptop, and the cell of a smart-car battery. More

Figure 4 Baotou, China, 2014: film still from Rare Earthenware (2014) showing Unknown Fields collecting radioactive mud from the tailings lake at the outflow of Baogang Iron and Steel Corporation. The mud was used to craft the set of three ceramic vessels. More