📚 Against the Machine by: Paul Kingsnorth

How a force that’s hard to name, but which we all feel, is reshaping what it means to be human

In Against the Machine, "furiously gifted" (The Washington Post) novelist, poet, and essayist Paul Kingsnorth presents a wholly original and terrifying account of the technological-cultural ...

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📚 Careless People by: Sarah Wynn-Williams

An explosive memoir charting one woman’s career at the heart of one of the most influential companies on the planet, Careless People gives you a front-row seat to Facebook, the decisions that have shaped world events in recent decades, and the people who made them.

From trips...

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🥳 We’re sending major congratulations to Ideas on Fire author Iván Chaar López! Iván’s book The Cybernetic Border: Drones, Technology, and Intrusion is out now from Duke University Press.

https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-cybernetic-border

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Two Interdisciplinary PhD positions @ Young Academy Groningen 2024 for the project "Academia in a bind: Data surveillance practices in scholarly publishing."

Deadline: 20/03/2024

https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/192803

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Join us in celebrating #IoFAuthor Raven Simone Maragh-Lloyd! Raven’s book Black Networked Resistance: Strategic Rearticulations in the Digital Age is available from #UCPress. It would make a great addition to reading lists in #BlackStudies #MediaStudies and #TechnologyStudies.

https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520390034/black-networked-resistance?utm_content=bufferb5b07&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin.com&utm_campaign=buffer

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🎬 Join us for the final online talk that the #technologystudies group at the University of St. Gallen is hosting!

☑️ @francislee will be presenting on absences and their politics
☑️ Friday 12 January 2024 at 14:15 CET
☑️ more information & link: https://rb.gy/ukmm7s
☑️ organized by #AnnaMann as part of her research project on “(Im-)Possibilities of Letting Life End”

#STS #absences #exclusion #Zika #politicsoftechnology

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Recommended reading:

Hyperconnectivity and Its Discontents

A brilliant synthesis in which Rogers Brubaker charts the social consequences of a world in which everyone and everything are connected to everyone and everything else, everywhere and all the time.

Tailor-made for teaching!

#Commodon #MediaStudies #STS #Sociology #Digitalization #Technology #TechnologyStudies #SocialMedia

Check out this *free* conference on "Everyday Life in Digitalized Worlds"

When: October 25-27, 2023

Where: Oslo, Norway

Registration deadline: August 15

Read more and register here ⬇️ https://www.sv.uio.no/sai/english/research/projects/private-lives/events/conferences/everyday-life-in-digitalized-worlds.html

#STS #Anthropology #Commodon #Digitalization #TechnologyStudies #MediaStudies

Fun fact: nuclear tests were a tourist attraction in 1950s Vegas

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/atomic-tourism-nevada/ #Oppenheimer #histodons #sts #history #Nuclearweapons #vegas #histtech #TechnologyStudies