Blue Velvet (digital project)

The project was published in the fifth issue of Vectors Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular, entitled "Difference."

The project was conceived as a multimedia presentation of a journal article which Goldberg had previously published, "Deva-stating Disasters: Race in the Shadow(s) of New Orleans"[1] and which had been noticed by Tara McPherson, one of the founding editors of Vectors.

From the first meeting, the group became aware that "the writing had to be envisaged in a more creative and experimental form,"[2] both as a result of the kinds of material they planned to use and the architecture of the site.

The design of the site was the result of "intense weekly conversations over something like a year"[3] and includes images, text, video, and sound files.

The project examines the effect of the hurricane on the city, and "underscores...that the tragic events that unfolded in New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast were possible precisely because of years of neoliberal policies that underwrote the necessary conditions for such devastation in the first place.