摘要：In fall 2019, I enrolled in SFU's President’s Dream Colloquium course, Creative Ecologies: Reimagining the World. One of the scholars we read was anthropology professor Dr. Shannon Mattern. My creative response to Mattern’s paper—"The Big Data of Ice, Rocks, Soils,andSediments”—offered an alternative way to engage with her scholarship. In searching for poeticandconcise turns of phrase, I noted how her word choiceandimage-making related to her essay’s construction. I sought out bits of data from her paper, re-arranged them into a cohesive unit,andfrom this garnered a deeper meaning of her intentandexpertise. I also noted what was absent or lacking,andthis deficit of words, specifically toward ‘should we be exploiting the planet for research?’ inspired me to emphasize this in my found poem.
