
Andrew Moon
Andrew Moon is a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology at The New School for Social Research. His research interests include risk transfer financial service and technology design, histories of earth science and sound, and transmission arts.
Andrew Moon is a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology at The New School for Social Research. His dissertation documents the work of earth and actuarial scientists in risk transfer financial service and technology design in Southeast Asia. The research draws on eighteen months of fieldwork to raise questions about the practice and recent history of value creation.
At GIDEST, Andrew is developing ethnographic materials collected at field science stations and laboratories in Singapore and Indonesia. The research examines how a transregional scene of earth scientists attempt to make infrasound – sound’s “inaudible” other – into viable scientific methodology and environmental knowledge. In doing so, the project aims to bring the reader into dialogue with the practice of atmospheric pressure; the search for the source and signature of distant low-frequency phenomena; the latent qualities of value and financial service creation in otherwise basic science work; and present histories of nineteenth- and twentieth-century science, aesthetics, and weapons testing R&D. His writing will explore these themes alongside literature and media from the social studies of finance, information science, social histories of technology, narrative fiction, and transmission arts.