Depreciating Assets : Printed Matter : 9780894390999 : 0894390996 : 18 Mar 2021 : Depreciating Assets is a new artists' book by Jessica Vaughn investigating labor, diversity politics, and the material environment of the American workplace. With a new lens to the artist's multidisciplinary practice, the project examines how affirmative action and other office equity measures are intersected by corporate infrastructure and, specifically, the physical layout of office space. Across four interwoven sections and related appendices, Vaughn assembles her photographs and critical writings alongside xeroxed images, diversity training video stills, and manipulated open source documents of the US Government. The project considers and distills the symptoms of late 20th and 21st century work culture produced by open office plans and modular architecture's promise of malleability, compliance, and universality - provisions that bid for increased efficiency and productivity at the expense of visib