MENU MENU Silenced Issues 4: (Un- )Silencing Issues in Thinking Through Environmental Data Leo Matteo Bachinger 08 May, 2017 For two years I live and work as “non-resident alien” in the US. Half-heartedly I joke that Donald Trump is “not my president”. There is a certain point to that. But what does that matter when I cross the border to fly back home to visit family and friends? Crossing the border becomes an act of uncertainty. I can hardly comprehend what even the trivial act of border crossing implies for my colleague who hopes to visit family in Syria, or for those who need to delete their prayer app before security check. For those, who never experienced crossing borders as a trivial act due Backchannels / Reflections Commentary on the cur‐ rent and future state of the field or subfields within science and technology studies. Can include inter‐ views, meditations on par‐ ticular concepts or methods, biography / autobiography, essays, and other more personal and less formal writings. Tags climate change,