Local Date

21 March 2025

Local Time

12:25

Location

University of York, Campus East

Country or Territory

United Kingdom

Name

Richard A Carter

Satellite

NOAA-18

Archive ID

ow1352

Coordinates

53.95, 1.05

Software problems caused frequent glitches in the audio stream, resulting in this rather "striated" sounding, despite an otherwise excellent signal. A reminder, if there ever was, of the fragile chain of material structures and processes that enable these activities - and of how this fragility emerges from their status as constantly performing 'agents' in the world, rather than the typical image of technology as always fully tamed, always fully obedient to human imperatives.

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