Joshua Zane Weiss is an ethnographer and PhD Candidate in Cultural Anthropology/Science & Technology Studies at University of California, Davis. His work engages emerging techno-cultures in Cuba alongside larger narratives attached to the global propagation of data networks.
Belief in the Potential Object: Technological Disobedience in Cuba
A battery charger for non-rechargeable batteries, a Soviet-era fan repaired with telephone parts, a beer can mousetrap: artist Ernesto Oroza discusses his long-running project documenting objects born out of necessity in Cuba.