Penned from the crooked
timber of humanity
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On Data, Devices and Daemons
The world changed in 2007. It’s hard to imagine now, but there was a time before smartphones. The breakthrough device, of course, was the iPhone. We’d had constant availability, whether…
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Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock
In his poem ‘Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock’, the great American poet Wallace Stevens hints at a warning for our time, which has inspired the coming together of this inaugural edition…
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STS, platform capitalism and the conundrum of expertise
They might be loath to admit it, but many Science and Technology Studies [STS] scholars today long for the halcyon days of the so-called “Science Wars” of the 1990s. Back…