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Efficiency is Dead
Or: Questionable Efficiencies: Recursive Depth as an Anti-Capitalist Metric. Below is the text and slides of a presentation I gave at the Generative Justice Conference held at RPI on June 27 & 28,...
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Talk at CAC Woodside
This Tuesday at CAC Woodside I’ll be one of several presenters at the monthly Pecha Kucha: Holding Things in Common: One Small Step towards an Alternative to Capitalism Typically when we hear...
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Review of Gabriella Coleman’s Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy
Gabriella Coleman’s history of the Anonymous collective is as much about her complicity in the group’s attention-seeking tactics as it is about the group itself. A hundred years ago, Dadaists made...
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OSCVM Project Awarded $18,000 NSF Grant
Very pleased to announce that my work on Open Source condom vending machines will benefit from an $18,000 dissertation research improvement grant from the National Science Foundation. This money will...
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Two New Fellowships!
Very happy to announce that I have been awarded two fellowships covering this summer and the following academic year. This summer I will be covered by the Alger Engineering Ethics Research...
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Interview in Buzzfeed
I spoke with Charlie Warzel at Buzzfeed tech about structural racism and the recent problems at Reddit: Stamping out hate on Reddit is roughly as easy as stamping out hate anywhere, which is to say...
View ArticleQuoted in Fusion
“Why don’t we ever talk about taking over social media companies?,” David Banks, who studies public space and digital networks, asked last week on the blog Cyborgology. “We will boycott them, demand...
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Article published in First Monday’s special issue on Non-Use
I’m excited about my first single-author peer-reviewed article! Here’s the abstract with a link to the full text: Abstract More than a semantic difference, investigating what it means to be online or...
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Mentioned in The Atlantic
Ingrid Burrington has a great article in the Atlantic on the mutually shaping relationship between railroads and the Internet where she cites my recent First Monday article on the origins of online...
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