Category: Technology

April 17, 2019

Q&A: Hunter Vaughan on Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret

“In Vaughan’s deft readings of multiple films and their production apparatuses, film theory and analysis also become “updated” into a cutting-edge discipline. Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret is an essential book in ecocinema and ecomedia studies and an important contribution to ecomaterialism within cultural...

December 6, 2017

Ear to the Ground, Listening for Nuclear Blasts

This week, our featured book is Silencing the Bomb: One Scientist’s Quest to Halt Nuclear Testing, by Lynn R. Sykes. Today, we are happy to present a short excerpt from an interview that with Kevin Krajick at State of the...

June 30, 2017

Capitalism and the History of the iPhone

On the iPhone’s 10th birthday, read an excerpt from MOVING DATA: THE IPHONE AND THE FUTURE OF MEDIA, by Pelle Snickars and Patrick Vonderau.

May 10, 2017

Culture Industry 2.0, or the End of Digital Utopias in the Era of Participation Culture

Read an excerpt from Roberto Simanowski’s foreword to SOCIOPHOBIA: POLITICAL CHANGE IN THE DIGITAL UTOPIA, by César Rendueles, translated by Heather Cleary!

May 9, 2017

Postnuclear Capitalism

Read an excerpt from the first chapter of SOCIOPHOBIA: POLITICAL CHANGE IN THE DIGITAL UTOPIA, by César Rendueles, translated by Heather Cleary, and with a foreword by Roberto Simanowski!

October 28, 2016

Intelligence Agency Logic

Read an excerpt on Edward Snowden, data surveillance, and the NSA from the first chapter of DATA LOVE: THE SEDUCTION AND BETRAYAL OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, by Roberto Simanowski.

October 26, 2016

The Seduction and Betrayal of Digital Technologies

Read a Q&A with Roberto Simanowski, author of DATA LOVE: THE SEDUCTION AND BETRAYAL OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES!

October 25, 2016

Introducing "Data Love"

Read the preface, epilogue, and postface to DATA LOVE: THE SEDUCTION AND BETRAYAL OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, by Roberto Simanowski!

February 12, 2016

The Wheel: A Great Innovation?

Read an article by Richard Bulliet, author of THE WHEEL: INVENTIONS AND REINVENTIONS, originally published at the Innovation in Practice blog.

February 9, 2016

Reddit AMA With Richard W. Bulliet

Read an excerpt from a Reddit AMA by Richard W. Bulliet, author of THE WHEEL: INVENTIONS AND REINVENTIONS.

December 9, 2015

Laborers Who Keep Beheadings Out of Your Facebook Feed — Best Business Writing 2015

An excerpt from The Best Business Writing 2015 examines how social media sites are moderated.

August 7, 2015

Introduction to "Terrorism in Cyberspace"

Read an excerpt from Gabriel Weimann’s introduction to TERRORISM IN CYBERSPACE: THE NEXT GENERATION.