New Books in Technology

Howie Singer and Bill Rosenblatt, "Key Changes: The Ten Times Technology Transformed the Music Industry" (Oxford UP, 2023)

23 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Key Changes: The Ten Times Technology Transformed the Music Industry (Oxford University Press, 2023) by Howie Singer and Bill Rosenblatt tells a new ...

André Jansson, "Rethinking Communication Geographies: Geomedia, Digital Logistics and the Human Condition" (Edward Elgar, 2022)

23 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How are geographies of communication changing with contemporary digital media and data infrastructure? What is ‘geomedia’ and ‘transmedia’? Wh...

Joanna Zylinska, "The Perception Machine: Our Photographic Future between the Eye and AI" (MIT Press, 2023)

22 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A provocative investigation of the future of photography and human perception in the age of AI. We are constantly photographing and being photographed...

Laila Shereen Sakr, "Arabic Glitch: Technoculture, Data Bodies, and Archives" (Stanford UP, 2023)

18 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Laila Shereen Sakr's book Arabic Glitch: Technoculture, Data Bodies, and Archives (Stanford UP, 2023) explores an alternative origin story of twent...

Mark Munsterhjelm, "Forensic Colonialism: Genetics and the Capture of Indigenous Peoples" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2023)

10 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Forensic genetic technologies are popularly conceptualized and revered as important tools of justice. The research and development of these technologi...

The Future of Predictions: A Discussion with Christopher E. Mason

09 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Predictive algorithms are changing the world – that is the claim of Christopher E. Mason who has co-authored (with Igor Tulchinsky) the book The A...

Hidden No More: A Conversation with Space Suit Technician Sharon McDougle

07 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Who dresses the astronauts for flight? Why are the suits orange? And how are they cared for? Sharon Caples McDougle joins us to talk about her work as...

Using History For User Research (UX): A Discussion with Larry McGrath

07 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In Episode 4 of "Practical History" I talk to Larry McGrath, a user researcher at Amazon (and author of Making Spirit Matter Neurology, Psychology, ...

Andrew C. McKevitt, "Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America" (UNC Press, 2023)

04 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The United States has more guns than people – a condition that is “unprecedented in world history.” Scholars often focus on gun culture, the Sec...

Monica Huerta, "The Unintended: Photography, Property, and the Aesthetics of Racial Capitalism" (NYU Press, 2023)

04 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The end of the nineteenth century saw massive developments and innovations in photography at a time when the forces of Western modernity—industriali...

Daniel Jütte, "Transparency: The Material History of an Idea" (Yale UP, 2023)

01 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Transparency is a mantra of our day. It is key to the Western understanding of a liberal society. We expect transparency from, for instance, political...

Jeff Jarvis, "The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

01 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The age of print is a grand exception in history. For five centuries it fostered what some call print culture – a worldview shaped by the completene...

Andrea L. Guzman et al., "The SAGE Handbook of Human–Machine Communication" (SAGE, 2023)

28 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The SAGE Handbook of Human-Machine Communication (Sage, 2023) has been designed to serve as the touchstone text for researchers and scholars engaging...

Peter Bellerby, "The Globemakers: The Curious Story of an Ancient Craft" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

27 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Peter Bellerby is the founder of Bellerby & Co. Globemakers, the world's only truly bespoke makers of globes. His team of skilled craftspeople make ex...

Dirk Van Laak, "Lifelines of Our Society: A Global History of Infrastructure" (MIT Press, 2023)

26 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Infrastructure is essential to defining how the public functions, yet there is little public knowledge regarding why and how it became today's stronge...

Peter Samsonov, "IS-2: Development, Design, and Production of Stalin's Warhammer" (Military History Group, 2022)

26 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The IS-2 is the quintessential Soviet heavy tank from World War 2. Heavily armored and boasting a fearsome 122mm gun, this tank matched the German pan...

Jason Puskar, "The Switch: An Off and On History of Digital Humans" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)

18 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

From the telegraph to the touchscreen, how the development of binary switching transformed everyday life and changed the shape of human agency. The Sw...

Florentine Koppenborg, "Japan's Nuclear Disaster and the Politics of Safety Governance" (Cornell UP, 2023)

18 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Florentine Koppenborg’s Japan’s Nuclear Disaster and the Politics of Safety Governance (Cornell UP, 2023) begins with the understated observatio...

Matthew F. Jordan, "Danger Sound Klaxon!: The Horn That Changed History" (U Virginia Press, 2023)

17 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Danger Sound Klaxon!:The Horn That Changed History (University of Virginia Press, 2023) reveals the untold story of the Klaxon automobile horn, one o...

Technology, AI, Political Economy, and Economic Development

14 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Simon Johnson (MIT Sloan Economics Professor and Former IMF Chief Economist) joins the podcast to discuss his new book "Power and Progress", co-author...

Xaq Frohlich, "From Label to Table: Regulating Food in America in the Information Age" (U California Press, 2023)

10 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Xaq Frohlich’s From Label to Table: Regulating Food in America in the Information Age (U California Press, 2023) is a biography of the Nutrition ...

Can You Fall in Love with ChatGPT?

10 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The University of Connecticut Humanities Institute recently sponsored a panel discussion on the topic, “Can you fall in love with ChatGPT?” and ...

A.I. and Practice with Stuart Baldwin

10 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The technological revolution we are facing today is artificial intelligence. At least this is what we are told. Those doing the telling include tech e...

The Future of Crucial Materials: A Discussion with Ed Conway

09 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed civilizations, and fed our ingenuity and greed for...

Jordan Frith, "Barcode" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

07 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Barcodes are about as ordinary as an object can be. Billions of them are scanned each day and they impact everything from how we shop to how we travel...

Wendy H. Wong, "We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age" (MIT Press, 2023)

02 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Our data-intensive world is here to stay, but does that come at the cost of our humanity in terms of autonomy, community, dignity, and equality? In W...

Tom Burbage et al., "F-35: The Inside Story of the Lightning II" (Skyhorse, 2023)

29 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The inside story of the most expensive and controversial military program in history, as told by those who lived it.  The F-35 has changed allied com...

William B. Eimicke et al., "Leveling the Learning Curve: Creating a More Inclusive and Connected University" (Columbia UP, 2023)

26 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Will the COVID-19 pandemic be remembered as a turning point in how universities deliver teaching and learning? How might the widespread use of digital...

Diana Kamin, "Picture-Work: How Libraries, Museums, and Stock Agencies Launched a New Image Economy" (MIT Press, 2023)

25 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How the image collection, organized and made available for public consumption, came to define a key feature of contemporary visual culture. The origin...

The Future of Paying Attention: A Discussion with Carolyn Dicey Jennings

24 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Is it really harder to pay attention to something than it used to be? No doubt the world is getting faster, and social media platforms are so good at ...

Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, "American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer" (Vintage, 2006)

21 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The inspiration for Christopher Nolan’s major motion picture, Oppenheimer, this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography explores the life and times of J. ...

Stephen Robert Miller, "Over the Seawall: Tsunamis, Cyclones, Drought, and the Delusion of Controlling Nature" (Island Press, 2023)

20 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In March 2011, people in a coastal Japanese city stood atop a seawall watching the approach of the tsunami that would kill them. They believed—naive...

AI, Post-Truth, and Cultural Transformation

16 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of International Horizons, RBI director John Torpey talks with economists Luciana Lazzaretti and Stefania Oliva of the University of F...

Smith Mehta, "The New Screen Ecology in India: Digital Transformation of Media" (British Film Institute, 2023)

15 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In The New Screen Ecology in India: Digital Transformation of Media (British Film Institute, 2023), Smith Mehta takes a deep dive into the world...

Txt

13 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of High Theory, Matthew Kirschenbaum talks about txt, or text. Not texting, or textbooks, but text as a form of data that is feeding l...

Twenty Years After “The New Economy”: A Conversation with Doug Henwood

02 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Economic journalist and broadcaster Doug Henwood revisits his 2003 book, After the New Economy (New Press), with Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel....

Michael D. Smith, "The Abundant University: Remaking Higher Education for a Digital World" (MIT Press, 2023)

29 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

For too long, our system of higher education has been defined by scarcity: scarcity in enrollment, scarcity in instruction, and scarcity in credential...

Kashmir Hill, "Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It" (Random House, 2023)

28 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

New York Times tech reporter Kashmir Hill was skeptical when she got a tip about a mysterious app called Clearview AI that claimed it could, with 99 p...

Aditi Surie and Ursula Huws, "Platformization and Informality: Pathways of Change, Alteration, and Transformation" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)

27 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In Platformization and Informality: Pathways of Change, Alteration, and Transformation (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023), scholars from Mumbai, Bengaluru, ...

Karen Weingarten, "Pregnancy Test" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

27 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In the 1970s, the invention of the home pregnancy test changed what it means to be pregnant. For the first time, women could use a technology in the p...

Lee Mcguigan, "Selling the American People: Advertising, Optimization, and the Origins of Adtech" (MIT Press, 2023)

26 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How marketers learned to dream of optimization and speak in the idiom of management science well before the widespread use of the Internet. Algorithms...

Forty Years of Technology Studies

18 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Stephen Barley, professor emeritus at both Stanford University and the University of California, Santa Barbara, talks about the long arc of his forty-...

Avery Dame-Griff, "The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet" (NYU Press, 2023)

17 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Avery Dame-Griff's The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet (NYU Press, 2023) explores how the rise of the internet shaped transg...

Catherine Coveney et al., "Technosleep: Frontiers, Fictions, Futures" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)

14 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Technosleep: Frontiers, Fictions, Futures (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) draws on a variety of substantive examples from science, technology, medicine, l...

A Better Way to Buy Books

12 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Bookshop.org is an online book retailer that donates more than 80% of its profits to independent bookstores. Launched in 2020, Bookshop.org has alre...

Race and Electrical Infrastructure in the Jim Crow South

11 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Conor Harrison, Associate Professor of Geography and the School of Earth, Ocean, and Environment at the University of South Carolina, talks about his ...

Marc Bonners, "Open World Structures: Architecture, Urban and Natural landscape in the Computer Game" (Büchner-Verlag, 2023)

07 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What role do algorithms play in the construction of images and the representation of the world and weather in computer games? How does the design of r...

Kenneth J. Saltman, "The Alienation of Fact: Digital Educational Privatization, AI, and the False Promise of Bodies and Numbers" (MIT Press, 2022)

06 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today, conspiracy theories run rampant, attacks on facts have become commonplace, and systemic inequities are on the rise as individual and collective...

Stephen Ramsay, "On the Digital Humanities: Essays and Provocations" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)

06 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Stephen Ramsey's On the Digital Humanities: Essays and Provocations (University of Minnesota Press, 2023) is a witty and incisive exploration of th...

Ari Ezra Waldman, "Industry Unbound: The Inside Story of Privacy, Data, and Corporate Power" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

02 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In Industry Unbound: The Inside Story of Privacy, Data, and Corporate Power (Cambridge UP, 2021), Ari Ezra Waldman exposes precisely how the tech in...

Bonnie Gordon, "Voice Machines: The Castrato, the Cat Piano, and Other Strange Sounds" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

31 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Italian courts and churches began employing castrato singers in the late sixteenth century. By the eighteenth century, the singers occupied a celebrit...

Donna J. Drucker, "Fertility Technology" (MIT Press, 2023)

29 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A concise overview of fertility technology—its history, practical applications, and ethical and social implications around the world. In the late 18...

Gary Smith, "Distrust: Big Data, Data-Torturing, and the Assault on Science" (Oxford UP, 2023)

27 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

There is no doubt science is currently suffering from a credibility crisis. Gary Smith's book Distrust: Big Data, Data-Torturing, and the Assault on...

Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, and the Future of Academic Publishing

22 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Avi Staiman, CEO of Academic Language Experts discusses the how advancements in artificial intelligence are shaping academic publishing. Avi offers ...

Academic Publishers Grapple with Advances in AI

19 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Niko Pfund joins the podcast to discuss the value of scientific content for building out Large Language Models and some of the challenges around track...

Roma Agrawal, "Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World (in a Big Way)" (Norton, 2023)

19 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Smartphones, skyscrapers, spacecraft. Modern technology seems mind-bogglingly complex. But beneath the surface, it can be beautifully simple. In Nuts...

Codename Revolution: The Nintendo Wii Platform

18 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Nintendo Wii, introduced in 2006, helped usher in a moment of retro-reinvention in video game play. This hugely popular console system, codenamed ...

The Digital Mind: How Science Is Redefining Humanity

17 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What do computers, cells, and brains have in common? Computers are electronic devices designed by humans; cells are biological entities crafted by evo...

The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga

16 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Long ago, in 1985, personal computers came in two general categories: the friendly, childish game machine used for fun (exemplified by Atari and Commo...

Jieun Kiaer, "Emoji Speak: Communication and Behaviours on Social Media" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

16 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Emoji Speak: Communication and Behaviours on Social Media (Bloomsbury, 2023) by Dr. Jieun Kiaer provides an in-depth discussion of emoji use in a glo...

Scott Skinner-Thompson, "Privacy at the Margins" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

16 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Limited legal protections for privacy leave minority communities vulnerable to concrete injuries and violence when their information is exposed. In P...

Networked: The New Social Operating System

15 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Daily life is connected life, its rhythms driven by endless email pings and responses, the chimes and beeps of continually arriving text messages, twe...

Hello Avatar: Rise of the Networked Generation

14 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Hello Avatar Or, {llSay(0, Hello, Avatar ); is a tiny piece of user-friendly code that allows us to program our virtual selves. In Hello Avatar, B. C...

The Future of Underground/Sea Cables: A Discussion with Henry Farrell

12 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How much of US power is underground? We hear a lot about the US military assets used on land, on the sea, and in the air - but not much about what’s...

Satsuki Takahashi, "Fukushima Futures: Survival Stories in a Repeatedly Ruined Seascape" (U Washington Press, 2023)

12 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Both before and after the 2011 "Triple Disaster" of earthquake, tidal wave, and consequent meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, anth...

Chris Wiggins and Matthew L Jones, "How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms" (Norton, 2023)

10 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

From facial recognition―capable of checking people into flights or identifying undocumented residents―to automated decision systems that inform wh...

Idolatry and Idle Hands (with Jacob Howland)

10 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Philosophy professor Jacob Howland applies the lessons of Greek classics and Jewish scripture to this our curious moment at the inception of Artificia...

Cory Doctorow, "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" (Verso, 2023)

09 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Big Tech locked us into their systems by making their platforms hard to leave by design. The impossibility of staying connected to people on their pla...

Driving While Black: African Americans and the Automobile

07 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Gretchen Sorin, Director and Distinguished Professor of the Cooperstown Graduate Program at the State University of New York - Oneonta, talks about he...

The Art of Failure: An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games

06 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We may think of video games as being "fun," but in The Art of Failure, Jesper Juul claims that this is almost entirely mistaken. When we play video ga...

The Future of Space Travel: A Discussion with Douglas C. Ligor

05 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The expansion of space travel is much discussed but always seems subject to delay. Why is that and when will it happen on a much larger scale? Dougla...

Robot Futures

04 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

With robots, we are inventing a new species that is part material and part digital. The ambition of modern robotics goes beyond copying humans, beyond...

Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet

03 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The vast majority of all email sent every day is spam, a variety of idiosyncratically spelled requests to provide account information, invitations to ...

Moving Innovation: A History of Computer Animation

02 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Computer graphics (or CG) has changed the way we experience the art of moving images. Computer graphics is the difference between Steamboat Willie and...

Kathryn Cramer Brownell, "24/7 Politics: Cable Television and the Fragmenting of America from Watergate to Fox News" (Princeton UP, 2023)

01 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

As television began to overtake the political landscape in the 1960s, network broadcast companies, bolstered by powerful lobbying interests, dominated...

Powering American Farms: A Conversation with Richard Hirsh

31 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Richard Hirsh, Professor of History at Virginia Tech, talks about his book, Powering American Farms: The Overlooked Origins of Rural Electrification ...

Betty Adamou, "Games and Gamification in Market Research: Increasing Consumer Engagement in Research for Business Success" (Kogan Page, 2018)

31 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Games are the most engaging medium of all time: they harness storytelling and heuristics, drive emotion and push the evolution of technology in a way ...

Alice E. Marwick, "The Private Is Political: Networked Privacy and Social Media" (Yale UP, 2023)

30 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Online privacy is under constant attack by social media and big data technologies. But we cannot rely on individual actions to remedy this—it is a m...

Rob Eschmann,, "When the Hood Comes Off: Racism and Resistance in the Digital Age" (U California Press, 2023)

29 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

From cell phone footage of police killing unarmed Black people to leaked racist messages and even comments from friends and family on social media, on...

Jeremy Black, "A History of Artillery" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)

28 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Jeremy Black's book A History of Artillery (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023) traces the development of artillery through the ages, providing a thorough s...

Nina Lager Vestberg, "Picture Research: The Work of Intermediation from Pre-Photography to Post-Digitization" (MIT Press, 2023)

26 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Picture Research: The Work of Intermediation from Pre-Photography to Post-Digitization (MIT Press, 2023) focuses on how pictures were saved, stored, ...

Juliet Schor, "After the Gig: How the Sharing Economy Got Hijacked and How to Win It Back" (U California Press, 2021)

17 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When the "sharing economy" launched a decade ago, proponents claimed that it would transform the experience of work--giving earners flexibility, auton...

Lin Zhang, "The Labor of Reinvention: Entrepreneurship in the Chinese Digital Economy" (Columbia UP, 2023)

17 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Hello, world! This is the Global Media & Communication podcast series. In this episode, our host Jing Wang discusses the book The Labor of Reinvent...

Jenna Grant, "Fixing the Image: Ultrasound and the Visuality of Care in Phnom Penh" (U Washington Press, 2022)

15 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Jenna Grant is a cultural anthropologist from the University of Washington and author of Fixing the Image: Ultrasound and the Visuality of Care in Ph...

Randall Patnode, "The Synchronized Society: Time and Control From Broadcasting to the Internet" (Rutgers UP, 2023)

12 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Synchronized Society: Time and Control From Broadcasting to the Internet (Rutgers University Press, 2023) by Dr. Randall Patnode traces the histo...

Palo Alto: A Conversation with Malcolm Harris

10 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This is the second Peoples & Things episode featuring a guest host. In this case, it is M. R. “Mols” Sauter, an assistant professor of information...

The War on Learning: Gaining Ground in the Digital University

30 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Behind the lectern stands the professor, deploying course management systems, online quizzes, wireless clickers, PowerPoint slides, podcasts, and plag...

The Marketplace of Attention: How Audiences Take Shape in a Digital Age

29 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Feature films, television shows, homemade videos, tweets, blogs, and breaking news: digital media offer an always-accessible, apparently inexhaustible...

Helle Porsdam, "Science as a Cultural Human Right" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)

28 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The human right to science, outlined in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and repeated in the 1966 International Covenant on Economic, So...

The Singer Sewing Machine in Spain and Mexico: Multinational Business, Gender, and Technologies

26 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Historian Paula de la Cruz-Fernandez talks about her book, Gendered Capitalism: Sewing Machines and Multinational Business in Spain and Mexico, 1850-...

Metadata

26 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When "metadata" became breaking news, appearing in stories about surveillance by the National Security Agency, many members of the public encountered ...

Brian Cummings, "Bibliophobia: The End and the Beginning of the Book" (Oxford UP, 2022)

25 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Bibliophobia: The End and the Beginning of the Book (Oxford UP, 2022) is a book about material books, how they are cared for, and how they are damage...

Make it New: A History of Silicon Valley Design

25 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

California's Silicon Valley is home to the greatest concentration of designers in the world: corporate design offices at flagship technology companies...

Reading the Comments: Likers, Haters, and Manipulators at the Bottom of the Web

24 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Online comment can be informative or misleading, entertaining or maddening. Haters and manipulators often seem to monopolize the conversation. Some co...

Works of Game: On the Aesthetics of Games and Art

23 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Games and art have intersected at least since the early twentieth century, as can be seen in the Surrealists' use of Exquisite Corpse and other games,...

Lars de Wildt, "The Pop Theology of Videogames: Producing and Playing with Religion" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)

22 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Young people in the West are more likely to encounter religion in videogames than in places of worship like churches, mosques or temples. Lars de Wild...

This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship Between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture

22 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Internet trolls live to upset as many people as possible, using all the technical and psychological tools at their disposal. They gleefully whip the m...

Richard Duncan, "The Money Revolution: How to Finance the Next American Century" (John Wiley & Sons, 2022)

21 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In The Money Revolution: How to Finance the Next American Century, economist and bestselling author Richard Duncan lays out a farsighted strategy to ...

The Future of Venture Capitalists: A Discussion with Sebastian Mallaby

20 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

By providing capital to back the ideas and efforts of others, venture capitalists can make absurd amounts of money. But there is another way of lookin...

David A. Banks, "The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America" (U California Press, 2023)

19 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America (U California Press, 2023) is the first book to explore how our cities gentrify b...