My friend Caroline Kanner and I reported and produced this story for The Dig Presents, and I made all the music. It was edited by Liza Yeager and Mitchell Johnson, with editorial oversight from Daniel Denvir and Alex Lewis at The Dig. (Originally published with the title “Superhighway!”)
Bibliography:
Chris Helzer - A Field Guide to Roadside Wildflowers at Full Speed
Christopher W. Wells - Car Country: An Environmental History
Robert Moor - On Trails: An Exploration
Snell-Rood Lab
Ben Goldfarb - Crossings: How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson - A Short History of the Blockade: Giant Beavers, Diplomacy, and Regeneration in Nishnaabewin
Lou Cornum - Who Belongs to the Land: An Essay on Camps, Blockades, and Indigenous Models of Remaking the World
Further Reading:
Burma-Shave
Robert A. Caro - The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Rachel Carson - Silent Spring
Elizabeth Marie Egan - A Commemorative History of The Minnehaha Free State and Four Oaks Spiritual Encampment
Nick Estes - Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
Federal Highway Administration - Native Wildflower Requirements
Charles Foster - Being a Beast: Adventures Across the Species Divide
Victor Hugo Green - The Negro Motorist Green Book
David Harvey - Between Space and Time: Reflections on the Geographical Imagination
William Least Heat-Moon - Blue Highways: A Journey into America
“Highway Hypnosis”
“Hyperspace”
Invisible-5
Manu Karuka - Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad
Ursula K. Le Guin - A Non-Euclidean View of California as a Cold Place to Be
Lucy R. Lippard - The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society
John Margolies - Roadside America
F. T. Marinetti - The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism
Fred Moten - Black and Blur: Consent Not to Be a Single Being
Reviel Netz - Barbed Wire: An Ecology of Modernity
Operation Wildflower
Rebecca Solnit - River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky - Roadside Picnic
Cole Swensen - Landscapes on a Train
Talking Heads - [Nothing But] Flowers
Paul Virilio - Speed and Politics
Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-Five
Walt Whitman - Song of the Open Road
Catherine Wong and Max Vilgalys - Latitudes