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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 18, 2013 12:14 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Harvard STS Circle<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Abstract</b><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">: </span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1D1B11">“Shoddy” came into existence as a noun to refer to a repurposed
textile material produced from old rags and tailors’ clippings. It is said that a West Yorkshire mill-owner, inspired by a chance encounter with a horse saddle stuffed with shredded tunics, “invented” shoddy in 1813. Industrial-style recycling was born alongside
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Biography</span></b><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">:</span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Hanna Rose Shell,
a historian of science and technology, is the Leo Marx Career Development Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at MIT, and an affiliate in Comparative Media Studies. Shell studies the production, use, and transformation of often-marginalized
artifacts, located at the interstices of the found and the fabricated. Her current book project is a historical and theoretical investigation into the epistemology of reuse, in which objects of analysis include old clothes, decomposing vegetable matter, and
other artifacts of strategic repurposing. Shell holds an MA in American Studies (Yale), and earned a PhD in the History of Science (Harvard), after which she was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. Recent works include the article “Cinehistory
and Experiments on Film,” published in Journal of Visual Culture (2012) and the book <i>Hide and Seek: Camouflage, Photography and the Media of Reconnaissance</i>, published by Zone Books in 2012.</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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