This is a brilliant new book by @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social

Edward Jones-Imhotep@ejonesimhotep.bsky.social · 3mo ago

It's publication day for The Broken Machine (@mitpress.bsky.social)! The book explores the intertwined histories of breaking machines, social order, and the self in the modern Atlantic, revealing how failing technologies have also shaped our world. mitpress.mit.edu/978026255334... #sts #histtech

Want some summer reading? How about a "book about books about computing"?? I have a new book out via @mitpress.bsky.social Details at: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348... #HistSci #Computing #History #Books 🗃️

New PSA @philsci.bsky.social newsletter is out: *International Syllabus Award 🌎 *PSA Philosophy of Science & Race Prize (due June 15‼️) *PSA26 UPSS Session *PSA26 Outreach & Engagement Award *PSA Election 🗳️ *PSA Travel Grants for graduate students ✈️ & more... #philsci mms.philsci.org/msg_detail.p...

A reminder that The Broken Machine is available open access through @mitpress.bsky.social Direct to Open platform. You can access it here: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon.... #sts #histtech #histsci

Congratulations to Prof. @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social on the publication of his new book with @mitpress.bsky.social 🎉 Even better: the book is available open access! We invite you all to explore this exciting research. mitpress.mit.edu/978026255334...

Riddle me this, #histSTM friends: How is a guillotine like a Gantt chart? A: They are both case studies featured in @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social's new examination of technological breakdowns & the politics of the self, published today by @mitpress.bsky.social! #histsci #histtech #STS #booksky 🗃️⚙️📜

Edward Jones-Imhotep@ejonesimhotep.bsky.social · 3mo ago

It's publication day for The Broken Machine (@mitpress.bsky.social)! The book explores the intertwined histories of breaking machines, social order, and the self in the modern Atlantic, revealing how failing technologies have also shaped our world. mitpress.mit.edu/978026255334... #sts #histtech

Edward Jones-Imhotep, The Broken Machine: Histories of Technology, Social Order, and the Self - @mitpress.bsky.social, May 2026 (print and open access) mitpress.mit.edu/978026255334... @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social

The Broken Machine

The Broken Machine explores the intertwined histories of breaking machines, social order, and the self in the modern Atlantic World. Edward Jones-Imhotep rev...

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This looks *fantastic*! Can’t wait to dig in, big congrats @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social

Edward Jones-Imhotep@ejonesimhotep.bsky.social · 3mo ago

It's publication day for The Broken Machine (@mitpress.bsky.social)! The book explores the intertwined histories of breaking machines, social order, and the self in the modern Atlantic, revealing how failing technologies have also shaped our world. mitpress.mit.edu/978026255334... #sts #histtech

Sounds like a fun but thoughtful read for my business history colleagues.

Edward Jones-Imhotep@ejonesimhotep.bsky.social · 3mo ago

It's publication day for The Broken Machine (@mitpress.bsky.social)! The book explores the intertwined histories of breaking machines, social order, and the self in the modern Atlantic, revealing how failing technologies have also shaped our world. mitpress.mit.edu/978026255334... #sts #histtech

A cultural history of technological breakdown, social order, and the self reveals how machines breaking down shaped modern identity and values in the Atlantic World: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255334...

New this week from the MIT Press. Congratulations authors! 📚👇

Holy heck the way we just got excited about the blurb alone here at ye olde Mark Twain House.

Edward Jones-Imhotep@ejonesimhotep.bsky.social · 3mo ago

It's publication day for The Broken Machine (@mitpress.bsky.social)! The book explores the intertwined histories of breaking machines, social order, and the self in the modern Atlantic, revealing how failing technologies have also shaped our world. mitpress.mit.edu/978026255334... #sts #histtech

It's publication day for The Broken Machine (@mitpress.bsky.social)! The book explores the intertwined histories of breaking machines, social order, and the self in the modern Atlantic, revealing how failing technologies have also shaped our world. mitpress.mit.edu/978026255334... #sts #histtech

If you're not yet a mentee in the Underrepresented Philosophy of Science Scholars (UPSS) Mentoring Program & interested in developing talk to submit for UPSS Session at PSA Meeting, please request a mentor by June 1st, so time to be paired & work with a mentor: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #HPS

PSA UPSS Initiative@psa-upss.bsky.social · 3mo ago

UPSS mentees participating in PSA UPSS Mentoring Program who are current grad students or w/in 3 years of PhD are eligible to submit a paper to be considered for presentation in UPSS Session at the PSA Biennial mtg in San Diego Nov 19-22. Deadline August 1st, 2026 #HPS philsci.org/upss_biennia...

Author copies have arrived! In The Broken Machine, I explore what happens when our technologies break. Drawing on five episodes from the modern Atlantic World, I argue that breakdowns have historically helped define who belongs to the social order and who's outside it. #histtech #histsci #HistSTM

Thrilled to have galleys of my book in hand! Final corrections & index pending. Please consider preordering, gifting, & teaching. Via the archive, interviews & more I show how the crisis we face now reflects failure to listen & act on the democracy Black folks have envisioned, but we still can.

For this holiday weekend, here’s the mother of all #ScholarSunday threads, my epic 275th of public scholarly writing, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ + blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

#ScholarSunday Thread 275 (5/10/26) – Black and White and Read All Over

For this holiday weekend, here’s the mother of all #ScholarSunday threads, my epic 275th of public scholarly writing, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, shar...

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My book has a cover! Inventing Nadar will be out in April 2026 from @dukepress.bsky.social.

My new book — The Broken Machine — officially drops on May 19! Available for pre-order now. @mitpress.bsky.social @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978026255334...

The Broken Machine

The Broken Machine explores the intertwined histories of breaking machines, social order, and the self in the modern Atlantic World. Edward Jones-Imhotep rev...

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Looking forward to speaking at Princeton next month as part of the Intersections Working Group @princetonenglish.bsky.social. I'll be previewing some material from the new graphic novel I'm developing with @mitpress.bsky.social .... english.princeton.edu/events/black...

The Black Androids: Writing the Technological Underground

Join Edward Jones-Imhotep, in conversation with Adriana Green, to discuss his newest book project “The Black Androids” and its adaptation into a graphic novel.Currently in development with MIT Press, ...

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i have been doing electronics repair for a few years now and want to open it up as a service beyond my immediate community. 🌬️🫧💿 (long thread incoming)

Very exited to be giving this keynote next month, where I'll be talking about my new book, The Broken Machine (mitpress.mit.edu/978026255334...)

Hannah Tardie@delay7.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The electronics faire schedule (keynote, workshops, and more) is now live! Excellent time for a visit to Philly <3 sites.temple.edu/efaire/sched...

The beautiful cover for my new book: "The Broken Machine: Histories of Technology, Social Order, and the Self." Coming June 2026. (mitpress.mit.edu/978026255334...). @mitpress.bsky.social

The IHPST is hiring! Assistant Professor - Philosophy of Science and/or Technology. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

Congrats to Prof. @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social on becoming co-editor of the Inside Technology series by @mitpress.bsky.social! Check out our curated list of @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcasts related to the series ihpst.utoronto.ca/news/profess...

Taylor M. Moore traces the scientific afterlife of the mummified body of Queen Henhenit in “Living Fossils,” highlighting the implications of the use of women’s bodies in the practice of medicine and the production of race science in modern Egypt. 🗃️

“Living Fossils”: Anatomies of Race and Reproduction in Modern Egypt

Abstract. This article traces the scientific afterlife of the mummy Queen Henhenit from excavation and circulation to examination and display in twentieth-

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This award-winning study examines how technological failures defined nature and national identity in Cold War Canada. "The Unreliable Nation" is now available in paperback: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205120...

Edward Jones-Imhotep@ejonesimhotep.bsky.social · last yr.

The Unreliable Nation, out in paperback today. U.S. threats to Canadian sovereignty, against the backdrop of Soviet expansionism … told as a history of nature and technology and in the early Cold War. @mitpress.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978026205120...

The Unreliable Nation, out in paperback today. U.S. threats to Canadian sovereignty, against the backdrop of Soviet expansionism … told as a history of nature and technology and in the early Cold War. @mitpress.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978026205120...

The Unreliable Nation

Throughout the modern period, nations defined themselves through the relationship between nature and machines. Many cast themselves as a triumph of technolog...

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Bay Area! I'll be giving work at both Berkeley and Stanford this week. @Stanford: "Computing, Intimately," which will be a hands-on demo of my programming language, Ludus, with a pre-circulated paper of mine about "computational transitional objects." shc.stanford.edu/stanford-hum...

I was pleased to attend a State Dinner, hosted by Pres. Macron, for participants of the AI Action Summit. It was an honor to be invited to deliver remarks at Elysee Palace on Three Fallacies in how we think about AI, now published @techpolicypress.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/three-fallac...

Three Fallacies: Alondra Nelson's Remarks at the Elysée Palace on the Occasion of the AI Action Summit | TechPolicy.Press

Dr. Nelson was an invited speaker at a dinner hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron at the Palais de l'Élysée on February 10, 2025.

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