All the threads

People and dogs share thousands of years of co-evolution. The nature of their relationship has also evolved, moving largely from dogs as workmates to dogs as pets. Especially in contemporary...

Dog Economics

Read the thread →

Secession is a false solution to American polarization, and the attempt would almost certainly produce great violence.

There are two sections that I hope browsers would encounter. The first is from a section at the beginning called the Year of Two Presidents. It is a fictional vignette...

The Disunited States

Read the thread →

Secession is a false solution to American polarization, and the attempt would almost certainly produce great violence.

I have written several books and articles on the dynamics of secession historically and globally. In an earlier book, Secession and the Sovereignty Game: Strategy and Tactics for Aspiring Nations...

The Disunited States

Read the thread →

Secession is a false solution to American polarization, and the attempt would almost certainly produce great violence.

The book is about secession in America. There is a growing interest in secession, or what some refer to as a national divorce between Red and Blue America. There is...

The Disunited States

Read the thread →

Models of the mind are idealized like frictionless planes, and idealization does not buy antirealism.

All computational models of the brain and cognitive activity produced so far are either idealizations, making the models hypothetical, or approximations, making the models inexact descriptions of their target phenomena,...

The Idealized Mind

Read the thread →

Models of the mind are idealized like frictionless planes, and idealization does not buy antirealism.

My interest in discussions about scientific modeling, idealization and scientific realism started with a coauthored paper “The Literalist Fallacy and the Free Energy Principle: Model-building, Scientific Realism and Instrumentalism”, published...

The Idealized Mind

Read the thread →

Models of the mind are idealized like frictionless planes, and idealization does not buy antirealism.

Milk production at a dairy farm was low, so the farmer wrote to the local university, asking for help. A multidisciplinary team of professors was assembled, headed by a...

The Idealized Mind

Read the thread →

Japan's railways used competition among Western manufacturers to extract locomotive technology, obliging German firms to disclose their processes.

I hope that they would take a moment to compare the photograph on page 186 with the locomotive photograph on page 187. Although the two locomotives appear very similar, there...

Trading Locomotives

Read the thread →

Japan's railways used competition among Western manufacturers to extract locomotive technology, obliging German firms to disclose their processes.

Let me share my personal perspective on my research journey. My interest began with the fascinating question of Japan's industrialization. How did Japan, a small island nation viewed by the...

Trading Locomotives

Read the thread →

Japan's railways used competition among Western manufacturers to extract locomotive technology, obliging German firms to disclose their processes.

In this book, I examined the history of Japan’s railroads, focusing on the locomotive trade and technological development from a global perspective. As railroads were a key industry of the...

Trading Locomotives

Read the thread →

Policy research organizations have become partisan policy demanders, and partisan trust has replaced objectivity as the policy world's currency.

There is one particular example in the book that especially highlights its main themes. In 2017, the Heritage Foundation released a new edition of its “Election Fraud Database,” an empirical...

Partisan Policy Networks

Read the thread →

Policy research organizations have become partisan policy demanders, and partisan trust has replaced objectivity as the policy world's currency.

Early in my graduate school career I was exposed to an increasingly popular theory of political parties as “extended networks”. Proponents argue that we need to move beyond formal party...

Partisan Policy Networks

Read the thread →

Policy research organizations have become policy demanders and party allies rather than producers of information.

This book examines how many policy research organizations, like think tanks, have transformed from non-partisan information producers into partisan allies pursuing ideological policy goals. Most policymaking today is structured by...

Partisan Policy Networks

Read the thread →

Film is a chemical product before it is a medium, and its raw materials carry a history of violence.

One of my favorite passages in the book comes in the third chapter, which looks at Agfa’s German factories (particularly the Wolfen factory) during the weeks and months after World...

Tales of Militant Chemistry

Read the thread →

Film is a chemical product before it is a medium, and its raw materials carry a history of violence.

This book is tied to two threads in my previous work. I studied filmmaking in college, and have long been fascinated by film as a physical medium: what it feels...

Tales of Militant Chemistry

Read the thread →

Film is a chemical product before it is a medium, and its raw materials carry a history of violence.

This book asks what happens when we take something we’re familiar with and consider it in an unfamiliar light. The “thing” in question is film: not films, the things we...

Tales of Militant Chemistry

Read the thread →

The registers of sovereign states behind statistical International Relations are biased toward Europe and the Americas and leave Africa, Asia and the Middle East blank for the nineteenth century.

Page 6, which shows the difference between the number of states that are included in the data that underpin our book, compared to the number of states identified in existing...

Colonization

Read the thread →

There were more states in 1825 than there are today, and European colonialism destroyed most of them.

Our book relates to big questions such as what counts as a state in the international system and how many states there were at different points in time. These are...

Colonization

Read the thread →

There were more states in 1825 than there are today, and European colonialism destroyed most of them.

This book corrects a Eurocentric picture of International Relations (IR) that has dominated the study of international relations over the past decades, and especially the statistical study of IR. If...

Colonization

Read the thread →

All solidarity is selective, in the state as in the household, and always contingent on group membership.

While my colleagues might zero in on one of the concepts the book examines (economic moralities, scales of solidarity, Facebook families, etc.) I hope that a reader who is just...

Selective Solidarity

Read the thread →

The household is at the center of the global economy rather than beneath it.

The book is located, in its theory and methods, at the intersections of linguistic and economic anthropology. Inverting the classic concept of “moral economy,” Selective Solidarity...

Selective Solidarity

Read the thread →

All solidarity is selective, in the state as in the household, and always contingent on group membership.

Selective Solidarity is an ethnography about middle-class Senegalese families in Paris. It foregrounds the experiences of the French-born children of educated immigrants from Dakar, to consider how young people learn...

Selective Solidarity

Read the thread →

There were more sovereign states in 1825 than there are today.

Page 6, which shows the difference between the number of states that are included in the data that underpin our book, compared to the number of states identified in existing...

Before Colonization

Read the thread →

There were more sovereign states in 1825 than there are today.

Our book relates to big questions such as what counts as a state in the international system and how many states there were at different points in time. These are...

Before Colonization

Read the thread →

There were more sovereign states in 1825 than there are today.

This book corrects a Eurocentric picture of International Relations (IR) that has dominated the study of international relations over the past decades, and especially the statistical study of IR. If...

Before Colonization

Read the thread →

In Silicon Valley the star is the system, and attention to big names and products makes it invisible.

I guess there are different ways to read this book. I designed it to make people see Silicon Valley in 3D. Like the cover does: it shows Silicon Valley in...

Tech

Read the thread →

In Silicon Valley the star is the system, not any entrepreneur or company.

My previous research was about the French movie industry. In 2014, Netflix was just arriving in France, opening up an office in Paris. I got funding for studying this company...

Tech

Read the thread →

In Silicon Valley the star is the system, and attention to big names and products makes it invisible.

I’m French. And I’m a sociologist. This book is about Silicon Valley. It’s the one I wanted to read when I started my field work in Northern California in 2015....

Tech

Read the thread →

Hearing is something people do, and expert perception is collectively cultivated by teachable tricks.

One of the remarkable observations detailed in this book is how hearing involves more than the ear. Our senses operate in such a way that there is an intertwining between...

Learning to Hear

Read the thread →

Hearing is something people do, and expert perception is collectively cultivated by teachable tricks.

This book is part of a much longer project within philosophy and social theory seeking to understand what I describe as the sensed unconscious. The concept describes aspects of our...

Learning to Hear

Read the thread →

Hearing is something people do, not something they have.

My book examines the tricks of the trade and forms of collective support for crafting our largely unconscious practices of hearing. As we live our daily lives, our hearing generally...

Learning to Hear

Read the thread →

Modern assassination is a state phenomenon, because the reaction of states is what gives political murder its charge.

When he rides from one place to another, it is in an armored car, preceded and followed by armored cars filled with soldiers. He travels at a high rate of...

Death to Order

Read the thread →

Modern assassination is a state phenomenon.

The study of assassination is akin to running a razor blade down the history of international politics: the cut is narrow but long and deep. Assassination reveals statesmen and their...

Death to Order

Read the thread →

Modern assassination is a state phenomenon, because the reaction of states is what gives political murder its charge.

Death to Order is an analytical history of assassination between 1914 and 2024, one-hundred-and-ten years. Death to Order sets out to convince the reader, with a mass of archival evidence drawn...

Death to Order

Read the thread →

Atoms decay at unalterable rates and carry no memory, so they are better historians than any human record.

Recounting the detailed life story of a long-extinct woolly mammoth may seem fantastically impossible, but our little atomic historians are up to the task. The “flavors” of different atoms referred to...

The Universal Timekeepers

Read the thread →

Atoms decay at unalterable rates and carry no memory, so they are better historians than any human record.

The United Nations has declared 2025 the Year of Quantum Science and Technology to mark the 100th anniversary of our foundational model of the atomic world, quantum mechanics. This model...

The Universal Timekeepers

Read the thread →

Atoms decay at unalterable rates and carry no memory, so they are better historians than any human record.

This book is about nothing. Or at least 99.999999999999% bits of nothingness. And yet it is about everything – all that you can touch, see, taste, smell, and feel, and...

The Universal Timekeepers

Read the thread →

The sixteenth-century contest for cloves and nutmeg was the catalyst of globalisation.

I would hope that a reader would start with the introduction. It frames the issues and activities that develop in the book, sets the geographical scene, and explains quite why...

Spice

Read the thread →

The race for spices, not the Atlantic crossing, was the catalyst of globalisation.

What started as a contest for spices between Portugal and Spain had many consequences. It hugely expanded European understanding of the world and allowed people, through the resulting medium of...

Spice

Read the thread →

The sixteenth-century contest for cloves and nutmeg was the catalyst of globalisation.

The content of my book is very much what the title proclaims: ‘Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that shaped the Modern World’. The sixteenth century was a break point in the...

Spice

Read the thread →

The nineteenth-century flood of pictures was driven by demand, not by technology.

I imagine that a curious reader browsing through the book would first be intrigued by the pictures. Identifying, gathering, and preserving pictures important to the early history of mass visual...

A Flood of Pictures

Read the thread →

Photography did not cause the flood of pictures, the pressure for images came first and technology enabled it.

As an art historian I have been especially interested in works of visual art that have played some significant part in public conversations about pressing issues. In an earlier book...

A Flood of Pictures

Read the thread →

Photography did not cause the flood of pictures, the pressure for images came first and technology enabled it.

Pictures of all kinds in all media are so omnipresent, so naturalized in our 21st-century lives that a world without them is hard to imagine. Yet the picture-saturated culture we...

A Flood of Pictures

Read the thread →

Fire, heat and matter are participants in skill, which is never transmitted between humans alone.

The hot parts, of course! This includes two chapters, “Fire and Sweat” and “Materia Erotica". In "Fire and Sweat," I get my first taste, so to speak, of intracorporeality. I'm...

Fire Craft

Read the thread →

Fire, heat and matter are participants in skill, which is never transmitted between humans alone.

The answer to is, in large part, constituted by a personal path - so much so that it constitutes the book's Prologue. I come from a family of makers and...

Fire Craft

Read the thread →

Skill is not passed between humans alone, fire and matter take part in it.

Fire Craft is a story about the meaning of making, of glassblowing, which is simultaneously a more general story about the human condition. It documents my experience learning to blow...

Fire Craft

Read the thread →

The nineteenth century's natural voice did not loosen vocal norms, it disguised their rigidity as anatomy.

The book attempts to give equal billing to scientific debates and educational practice in music and oracy. Different parts of the narrative are therefore likely to appeal to readers interested...

Speaking, Stammering, Singing, Shouting

Read the thread →

The nineteenth century's natural voice did not loosen vocal norms, it disguised their rigidity as anatomy.

My interest in the sounds of historical voices grew out of my earlier research on masculinity in the nineteenth century. Rooting through the archives of schools, military barracks and legislative...

Speaking, Stammering, Singing, Shouting

Read the thread →

The nineteenth century's natural voice hid rigid norms behind the language of anatomy.

Speaking, Stammering, Singing, Shouting is about what people sounded like in the nineteenth century. It doesn’t spotlight the brilliant voices of the stage or the famous voices of public figures....

Speaking, Stammering, Singing, Shouting

Read the thread →

Coffee's rise in America is the opposite of independence, a foreign dependence that outlasted the break with Britain.

I hope that readers “just browsing” the book would start on page 1. I deliberately used one of my interesting historical examples to catch readers’ attention. The book’s introduction begins...

Coffee Nation

Read the thread →

Coffee's rise in America is the opposite of independence, a foreign dependence that outlasted the break with Britain.

Coffee Nation is my effort to demonstrate how everyday goods—things we almost take for granted—can often have long and complicated histories. The book begins with the early coffee trade in...

Coffee Nation

Read the thread →

Coffee's rise in America is a story of dependence, not independence.

While Coffee Nation is about the history of one of the world’s most popular commodities, I use it to consider how North America fit into a world governed by empires...

Coffee Nation

Read the thread →

Early modern England's dominant metaphors came from books rather than the theatre, and they composed thought, whiteness included.

I hope readers look first at the table of contents, to see the whole range of topics covered in the book: from printing language to book-related insults, and from scientific...

How the World Became a Book in Shakespeare's England

Read the thread →

Early modern England's dominant metaphors came from books rather than the theatre, and they composed thought, whiteness included.

Scholars of book history and early modern English literature have long affirmed and debated the impact of printing technology on culture. They often invoke exemplary claims and concepts, such as...

How the World Became a Book in Shakespeare's England

Read the thread →

Early modern England thought in metaphors drawn from books, not from the theatre.

Human beings think, speak, and write in metaphors. Those metaphors change as cultures do; people use them to respond to and reshape the world. Indeed, neuroscientists and literary scholars alike...

How the World Became a Book in Shakespeare's England

Read the thread →

Blake's purpose was a perceptual revival, and what closed the doors of perception was eighteenth-century philosophy.

One line might appear quickly to a person who picked up the book and started flicking through the pages. It’s in the introduction and is these words. “If the doors...

Awake! William Blake and the Power of the Imagination

Read the thread →

Blake's purpose was not poetry or social criticism but a revival of perception.

I myself wanted to discover what Blake was driving at. I live in South London, near where he and his wife, Catherine, lived for a decade of their long marriage...

Awake! William Blake and the Power of the Imagination

Read the thread →

Blake's purpose was a perceptual revival, and what closed the doors of perception was eighteenth-century philosophy.

“Awake!” takes the British poet and painter, William Blake, at his word. He is well known for some of his sayings, such as “To see a World in a...

Awake! William Blake and the Power of the Imagination

Read the thread →

People diagnosed with psychopathy are not meaningfully more violent than other offenders, and the diagnosis should leave legal use.

The structure of the book is relatively straightforward. There is a total of eight chapters, where five of them examine one of five central claims about psychopathy by reviewing research...

Psychopathy Unmasked

Read the thread →

People diagnosed with psychopathy are not meaningfully more violent than other offenders, and the diagnosis should leave legal use.

At its core, Psychopathy Unmasked is a work of skepticism. Psychopathy is unquestionably one of the most culturally captivating mental health diagnoses. It pervades crime thrillers and true-crime narratives, making...

Psychopathy Unmasked

Read the thread →

People diagnosed with psychopathy are not meaningfully more violent than other offenders.

Psychopathy Unmasked is a book about “psychopaths.” But it’s not your ordinary run-of-the-mill account that repeats the well-worn story of violent people naturally disposed to wreak havoc in our society. Instead,...

Psychopathy Unmasked

Read the thread →

All opera is postcolonial, but opera cannot be decolonial.

The most important thing I’d like a casual reader or browser to engage with is the book’s companion website. Writing about music, theatre, and dance often feels restrictive—one can only...

Postcolonial Opera

Read the thread →

All opera is postcolonial, but opera cannot be decolonial.

When I tell people that I study opera in South Africa, they almost always say, “I didn’t know there’s opera there!” Fact is, there’s a very vibrant operatic culture in...

Postcolonial Opera

Read the thread →

All opera is postcolonial, but opera cannot be decolonial.

What comes to mind when you think of opera? For most people, the word summons some variation on belting ladies, black tie, red velvet seats, opulent theatres, and diamond-encrusted snobbery...

Postcolonial Opera

Read the thread →

Indigenous North America is a 20,000-year record of invention whose architecture stands comparison with medieval Europe's.

If a potential reader were to pick up my book, I like to believe that were they to turn to a random page, they would immediately be intrigued and drawn...

Native America

Read the thread →

Indigenous North America is a distinct chapter of the human story, not a prologue to it.

Let's get something straight right at the outset; I am not an Indigenous person. My ancestors arrived in America in the late nineteenth century, fleeing poverty and oppression in Europe....

Native America

Read the thread →

Indigenous North America is a 20,000-year record of invention whose architecture stands comparison with medieval Europe's.

Reading a non-fiction book can be like taking a journey through time and across space. The author is your tour guide. In Native America: The Story of the First Peoples,...

Native America

Read the thread →

AI will shrink the pool of material eligible for intellectual property protection and drain value from protection itself.

I would love if a “just-browsing” reader were to land on the section explaining how LLMs work. I tried to craft an analogy that has the virtue of precision while...

AI Versus IP

Read the thread →

AI will shrink the pool of material eligible for intellectual property protection and drain value from protection itself.

From a broad, theoretical perspective, intellectual property is underpinned by the philosophy of utilitarianism. At the risk of wildly oversimplifying moral philosophy, utilitarianism considers the ‘utility,’ that is, the total...

AI Versus IP

Read the thread →

AI's real threat to intellectual property is that it shrinks what is worth protecting.

The United States Constitution laid the groundwork for the intellectual property regime—giving Congress the power: “To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to...

AI Versus IP

Read the thread →

School dysfunction is hardwired into governance, because school boards answer to an electorate mostly without school-aged children.

If someone was just browsing, I would encourage them to start with the first sentence of the first chapter: “June 7, 2023, was the day a group of homophobic Armenians...

No Adults Left Behind

Read the thread →

School dysfunction is built into how schools are governed, not incidental to it.

I’ve been interested in education, and attending school board meetings, for more than half of my life. I began in high school when, as editor of my high school newspaper,...

No Adults Left Behind

Read the thread →

School dysfunction is hardwired into governance, because school boards answer to an electorate mostly without school-aged children.

There is a conundrum built into how we as a society have decided to organize public education. Schools exist to educate children. But public schools are governed through elections in...

No Adults Left Behind

Read the thread →

Films about the unhomed are the flip side of American cinema's narratives of success, home and mobility.

Of course, homelessness is one of the major problems facing society today. Part of the impetus for this project was to think historically about representations of homelessness to see how...

Unhomed

Read the thread →

Films about the unhomed are the flip side of American cinema's success stories.

Unhomed examines America’s ambivalent and shifting attitude toward placelessness through marginalized figures of mobility in film. The book examines films that show characters as unhomed and placeless, mobile rather than...

Unhomed

Read the thread →

Films about the unhomed are the flip side of American cinema's narratives of success, home and mobility.

The most surprising chapter in the book is probably Chapter 3, “Adrift: The Freedom of the Female Hitchhiker.” It deals with the brief but intense cycle of exploitation films about...

Unhomed

Read the thread →

The mirror test never formed an intellectual tradition, and following the apparatus yields a different history of the mind sciences.

In the immediate post-war period, the work of the cybernetician Grey Walter picked up on earlier critiques of the mirror test. Walter had built a cybernetic “tortoise,” a simple robot...

The Mirror and the Mind

Read the thread →

The mirror test never formed an intellectual tradition, and following the apparatus yields a different history of the mind sciences.

By following the mirror through a range of historical contexts, The Mirror and the Mind offers a new way of understanding the history of psychology. While the standard history of...

The Mirror and the Mind

Read the thread →

The mirror test is held together by a piece of equipment, not a tradition of ideas.

The Mirror and the Mind traces the history of the mirror self-recognition test—the experiment of placing subjects in front of a mirror and looking for signs of self-recognition—showing how it...

The Mirror and the Mind

Read the thread →

Brazilian women artists under the military regime refused the word feminism as a US import while using feminist strategies.

The book is organized thematically in four chapters on different kinds of “dissident practices:” Political Practices, Discursive Practices, Transgressive Practices, and Practices of the Self. The selection of the artists...

Dissident Practices

Read the thread →

Brazilian women artists under the military regime refused the word feminism as a US import while using feminist strategies.

Dissident Practices examines sixty years of visual art by 18 prominent and emerging Brazilian women artists from the 1960s to the present. Through their radical sociopolitical agendas, they affirmed their...

Dissident Practices

Read the thread →

Brazilian women artists rejected the word feminism as a US import while using feminist strategies.

I believe the reader would find interest in browsing Chapter 1, especially the passage on how the Right, the Church, and the Left disdained women’s personal experiences, as they adopted...

Dissident Practices

Read the thread →

Certainty, not malice, produced the twentieth century's mass murder.

The book’s introduction and conclusion offer a real taste of how it proceeds. In the introduction, I first describe an ancient literary form that served as my model. Called “the...

Wonder Confronts Certainty

Read the thread →

Certainty, not malice, produced the twentieth century's mass murder.

Russians are famous for taking ideas to the extreme and then acting on them. That is why they created totalitarianism. Russian thinkers before Communism also tended to take ideas to...

Wonder Confronts Certainty

Read the thread →

Certainty, not malice, produced the twentieth century's mass murder.

Wonder Confronts Certainty introduces readers to the especially intense Russian debates, over the past two centuries, on the ultimate questions of life. As Virginia Woolf and others noted when the...

Wonder Confronts Certainty

Read the thread →

Feminism has been integral to the United States since 1776, and the rights it won are reversible.

What if someone could commit you to an insane asylum for life with a simple signature? Or send your children to live with strangers? Or fire you from your job...

Fearless Women

Read the thread →

Feminism has been integral to the United States since 1776, and the rights it won are reversible.

When browsing for a book, I enjoy employing Ford Madox Ford’s “page 99” test. An English literary critic and novelist, Ford wrote in the 1920s, “Open the book to page...

Fearless Women

Read the thread →

Feminism has been central to the United States since 1776, not a side topic.

As a novelist and historian, I craft stories in intimate ways that allow readers to feel events of the past: from the experience of the enslaved woman who hid in...

Fearless Women

Read the thread →

Being set beneath another person is a wrong in its own right.

Much in our interior mental lives and in our exterior social structures presupposes that we, human beings, are conscious of social hierarchy, of differences in rank and status. This book,...

The Pecking Order

Read the thread →

There is a freestanding objection to being set beneath another, irreducible to fair distribution or natural rights.

As to what pages of the book I would hope a browser encountered first, I will say, unsurprisingly, the introduction and conclusion. The introduction spells out in a bit more...

The Pecking Order

Read the thread →

There is a freestanding objection to being set beneath another, irreducible to fair distribution or natural rights.

One way to situate the book is simply to see it as contributing to ongoing philosophical debates about particular social phenomena, such as the state, the workplace, discrimination, and corruption....

The Pecking Order

Read the thread →

Shooting war is becoming too expensive to wage, so conflict is migrating into law, trade, tourism, migration and crime.

Two aspects of my professional path led me to this book. I have been working on security studies, with a particular focus on Russia since before Russia was an independent...

The Weaponisation of Everything

Read the thread →

As shooting wars grow too costly, conflict is moving into law, trade and crime.

Even as shooting wars are raging in Ukraine, Gaza and Yemen, and may yet be sparked over Taiwan, there is much talk about the ways in which modern states face...

The Weaponisation of Everything

Read the thread →

Shooting war is becoming too expensive to wage, so conflict is migrating into law, trade, tourism, migration and crime.

At the start of each chapter is a scenario illustrating the themes it is addressing, and while the first is a speculative near-future one (a Chinese operation to seize control...

The Weaponisation of Everything

Read the thread →

Utopian thinking survived the twentieth century's catastrophes, rebuilt in West Germany from the late 1970s by ordinary people.

A key component of the book’s argument is that both efforts to reimagine the parameters of what “utopia” could mean and efforts to pursue those possibilities in practice could be...

Sustainable Utopias

Read the thread →

Utopian thinking survived the twentieth century's catastrophes, rebuilt in West Germany from the late 1970s by ordinary people.

This is a book about hope. It’s about the resilient and adaptable human capacity to imagine a superlative future, even when official discourses insisted on its impossibility. It’s about who...

Sustainable Utopias

Read the thread →

Utopian thinking did not die with the twentieth century's catastrophes, it was rebuilt.

In some ways, a history of late twentieth-century utopianism fits neatly into histories of the twentieth century. Many scholars have emphasized that efforts to realize sweeping revisions to the structure...

Sustainable Utopias

Read the thread →

Humans are themselves a technology, and that technology is analog, so digital does not reflect what we are.

Analog begins with an introductory chapter on retro analog consumer technologies such as vinyl records, single-lens reflex cameras, music cassette tapes, and so on, and how these and many other...

Analog

Read the thread →

We are not just users of technology, we are technology, and analog at that.

Analog is about how we live our lives today—with digital technology. The book is about analog; but it is also about digital because both technological forms are inextricably conjoined in...

Analog

Read the thread →

Humans are themselves a technology, and that technology is analog, so digital does not reflect what we are.

I have taught and researched media and media theory for over twenty years and have been increasingly struck by how little we understand about the human relationship with technology, particularly...

Analog

Read the thread →