Josh Lepawsky

Josh researches the geographies of discards as well as those of maintenance and repair.
Today's discards are synthetic, heterogeneous, and entail high degrees of indeterminacy around their mitigation or remediation. Maintenance and repair, although essential to the smooth functioning of socioeconomic life, have until quite recently, been relegated to the margins of social science research.

Semiconductor lab, science, production, PC mainboard
Global tech

Climate change is a massive threat to semiconductor manufacturing. Here’s why

- March 28, 2024 4 MIN READ

Semiconductors are the basic building blocks of microchips. These technological marvels are in everything from lightbulbs and toothbrushes to cars, trains and planes, not to mention the vast array of electronics that have become integral to many people’s daily lives. The 21st century chip manufacturing industry has been described as “at least as significant geopolitically… Read more »