Very excited to share a link to my new book! The introduction is now available at dukeupress.edu/archives-of-...
Archives of the Anthropocene: Visual Grammars of Deep Time
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Marc Steinberg
@msteinbrg.bsky.social
Writing about platforms capitalisms, super apps, convenience stores in Japan and Asia. Director of The Platform Lab.Books: In/Convenience (http://bit.ly/3Vcs4m4); The Platform Economy; Anime's Media Mix.
Yuriko Furuhata’s brilliant follow up book to Climatic Media is out in Sept! Archives of the Anthropocene is on environmental media and the empires of Japan and US in the 20th century. Also snow crystals & much else. The Intro is now out here! Please read & share: dukeupress.edu/archives-of-...
Archives of the Anthropocene: Visual Grammars of Deep Time
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This was a conversation that I didn't think I'd see. That's Thiel and Shigesato Itoi a little less than ten years ago. www.1101.com/peter_thiel/
Can’t wait to read this book in its entirety- it’s a fantastic account of digital India post smartphone and post “unlimited data “ by one of its foremost scholars
Rahul Mukherjee@rahmuk.bsky.social · 5mo agoFew pre-book copies of "Unlimited: Aspirational Politics and Mobile Media Distribution" arrived in package, and some kind endorsements from scholars whom I deeply respect. The book is going to be published in late March through MIT Press.
Can’t wait to read this book in its entirety- it’s a fantastic account of digital India post smartphone and post “unlimited data “ by one of its foremost scholars
Rahul Mukherjee@rahmuk.bsky.social · 5mo agoFew pre-book copies of "Unlimited: Aspirational Politics and Mobile Media Distribution" arrived in package, and some kind endorsements from scholars whom I deeply respect. The book is going to be published in late March through MIT Press.
Few pre-book copies of "Unlimited: Aspirational Politics and Mobile Media Distribution" arrived in package, and some kind endorsements from scholars whom I deeply respect. The book is going to be published in late March through MIT Press.
Turns from war to the ballroom without a blink - after claiming he won’t get bored of war
What a waste of an hour I’ll never get back. SOTU seems basically a fail right? 10 minutes clapping for hockey can’t be a good use of time, no?
Bracing critique of Byung Chul Han's Orientalist framing of Zen Buddhism - to which I'd add that Japanese Zen itself is a response by the 1930s Kyoto school to Heidegger: offering itself as a useful mirror to the "West" in Japan’s own imperial project www.e-flux.com/notes/678345...
For Another Buddhism, Against Byung-Chul Han - Notes - e-flux
Alex Taek-Gwang Lee reviews The Philosophy of Zen Buddhism by Byung-Chul Han.
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This is actually a decent, accessible, and--most importantly--coherent primer on what the Dark Enlightenment is and how it's infiltrated contemporary politics. Most of this is contingent, however, on Thiel and Trump maintaining influence and power. cc: @aelkus.bsky.social ridl.io/the-dark-enl...
The Dark Enlightenment and the Return of Political Theology in Russia and the United States – Riddle Russia
Maria Engström examines the Dark Enlightenment in Russia and the US: a philosophical doctrine that reintegrates metaphysical elements into political thought and promotes a new authoritarian world orde...
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Joi Ito occupies a pretty big slice of the academia connection
So satisfying to find niche screencaps for lecture. 🤌 Today we read Marc Steinberg's @msteinbrg.bsky.social excellent translation of Ōtsuka Eiji's "World and Variation: The Reproduction and Consumption of Narrative" in Mechademia Second Arc 5, no. 1 (2010). 📖🔗 www.researchgate.net/publication/...
It was Mad King Don day but Carney stole the limelight
I can’t remember whether I said the writing of Hiroki Azuma and other thinkers from the aughts that I wrote about weren’t just relevant to the United States, but China and Korea as well. Well, if I didn’t, then I’m saying that now.
It's November, 2179 and Americans of all stripes are lining up to cast their vote. Republicans are running an AI of Donald Trump, powered by the data center that now constitutes all of Iowa. Democrats are running a semi-intelligent strain of slime mold that has taken the vague form of Gavin Newsom.
Today's a big day for professional announcements for me. @jcmsjournal.bsky.social published its Spring issue, which includes an open access InFocus coedited by Leo Goldsmith and I. I'm so excited about the topic, SCI FI DOC, which I think is woefully understudied. quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jcms/infoc...
A thoughtful piece on social media and sociality... by JP Verne: Make Social Media Social Again: How Platform Interoperability Can Fix Social Media and Future‐Proof Democracy - Vergne - Journal of Management Studies - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Make Social Media Social Again: How Platform Interoperability Can Fix Social Media and Future‐Proof Democracy
This essay argues that social media document (rather than fuel) the decline of political democracy while helping revive organizational democracy, including through ‘decentralized autonomous organizat...
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This really is a Netflix world. Finalizing my Netflix Effect syllabus at present and the title of the course has renewed relevance
I am SO HAPPY to announce that this morning I defended my dissertation "Of Tentacles and Men: How anime shaped the internet as we know it"🥹🥹 I got no revisions and an OUTSTANDING (💅) grade for the presentation wowowow it has been such a journey, thank you to everyone!! 👩🏻🎓🎓🫶🥹❤️🔥✨✨✨
Today in E-flux, a piece I wrote on the spatial and environmental politics of AI in the United States. In great company as part of the Technoecologies series curated by Nathalie Bredella and Grayson Bailey. www.e-flux.com/architecture...
Technoecologies - Daniel Cardoso Llach - The Mississippi Colossus
Boxtown is a neighborhood in South Memphis established in 1863 by emancipated former slaves. Since 2024, it is also the home to one of the world’s largest supercomputers, property of Elon Musk’s artif...
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Very fascinated by this new email scam: I read your article and have questions, give me your contact details that are WhatsApp or LINE etc. These scams play into the egos of academics - wow, someone read my work and wants to talk about it! Who else has received these?
💥 Sovereignty as a service. New article in Media, Culture & Society on how big tech companies are co-opting and redefining digital sovereignty. Co-authored by me and Alexandre Costa Barbosa journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
A brilliant intervention in platform studies and Asia just dropped: "Platformize Asia—Reimagining Asia in Platform Capitalism". It will be one of the most important articles in the new few years. Congrats to @linzhang.bsky.social & @elainejyuan.bsky.social ! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Black, magenta and an edge data center on the cover of my book about Nairobi, smartphones, platforms, standards, venture capital and digital China. Out in the boreal fall this year 🪩 with U California Press (and OA)
Super excited to announce a new piece out in the world: States and platform capitalisms: A conversation. This is a collaboration with some amazing thinkers and friends- led by @sayshatim.bsky.social Joe Khalil @linzhang.bsky.social & @rahmuk.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Everyone so often you have a conversation with people that really makes the world make more sense, and so this conversation turned into an article that tries to recreate that. what a joy to have worked on this with @msteinbrg.bsky.social @linzhang.bsky.social @rahmuk.bsky.social and Joe Khalil!
Marc Steinberg@msteinbrg.bsky.social · 9mo agoSuper excited to announce a new piece out in the world: States and platform capitalisms: A conversation. This is a collaboration with some amazing thinkers and friends- led by @sayshatim.bsky.social Joe Khalil @linzhang.bsky.social & @rahmuk.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Super excited to announce a new piece out in the world: States and platform capitalisms: A conversation. This is a collaboration with some amazing thinkers and friends- led by @sayshatim.bsky.social Joe Khalil @linzhang.bsky.social & @rahmuk.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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