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Zachary Loeb – What Technology Do We Really Need? – A Critique of the 2016...

by Zachary Loeb ~ Technological optimism is a dish best served from a stage. Particularly if it’s a bright stage in front of a receptive and comfortably seated audience, especially if the person...

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Audrey Watters – The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

By Audrey Watters ~ This talk was delivered at Virginia Commonwealth University today as part of a seminar co-sponsored by the Departments of English and Sociology and the Media, Art, and Text PhD...

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Anthony Galluzzo — Utopia as Method, Social Science Fiction, and the Flight...

a review of Peter Frase, Four Futures: Life After Capitalism (Verso Jacobin Series, 2016) by Anthony Galluzzo ~ Charlie Brooker’s acclaimed British techno-dystopian television series, Black Mirror,...

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Richard Hill — States, Governance, and Internet Fragmentation (Review of...

a review of Milton Mueller, Will the Internet Fragment? Sovereignty, Globalization and Cyberspace (Polity, 2017) by Richard Hill ~ Like other books by Milton Mueller, Will the Internet Fragment? is a...

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Zachary Loeb — From Megatechnic Bribe to Megatechnic Blackmail: Mumford’s...

Zachary Loeb Without even needing to look at the copyright page, an aware reader may be able to date the work of a technology critic simply by considering the technological systems, or forms of media,...

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R. Joshua Scannell — Architectures of Managerial Triumphalism (Review of...

A review of Benjamin Bratton, The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty (MIT Press Press, 2016) by R. Joshua Scannell The Stack Benjamin Bratton’s The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty is an often...

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Zachary Loeb — Flamethrowers and Fire Extinguishers (Review of Jeff Orlowski,...

a review of Jeff Orlowski, dir., The Social Dilemma (Netflix/Exposure Labs/Argent Pictures, 2020) by Zachary Loeb ~ The myth of technological and political and social inevitability is a powerful...

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Zachary Loeb — General Ludd in the Long Seventies (Review of Matt Tierney,...

a review of Matt Tierney, Dismantlings: Words Against Machines in the American Long Seventies (Cornell University Press, 2019) by Zachary Loeb ~ The guy said, “If machinery makes you so happy go buy...

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Zachary Loeb — Burn It All (Review of Mullaney, Peters, Hicks and Philip,...

a review of Thomas S. Mullaney, Benjamin Peters, Mar Hicks and Kavita Philip, eds., Your Computer Is on Fire (MIT Press, 2021) by Zachary Loeb ~ It often feels as though contemporary discussions about...

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Sharrona Pearl — In the Shadow of the Valley (Review of Anna Wiener, Uncanny...

a review of Anna Wiener, Uncanny Valley: A Memoir (Macmillan, 2020) by Sharrona Pearl ~ Uncanny Valley, the latest, very well-publicized memoir of Silicon Valley apostasy, is, for sure, a great read....

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