UNIVAC is saving a lot of people a lot of time

I had occasion to read the October 4th, 1968 issue of TIME magazine (Canada edition!) cover to cover last night.* There is something magical about reading periodicals from another era, where what we experience as history is rendered as quotidian life, and you get a glimpse of how your own moment, as it is rendered …

A few days late, but another speech from the November 14th rally

This one from my friend Michelle Hartman –*– My name is Michelle Hartman, I teach in the Institute of Islamic Studies and I am a member of MFLAG. The last time I spoke out on an amplified system to you all, at another student organized teach-in, I linked the treatment of the striking workers from …

Update from the road : Art + MUNACA

I’ve been enjoying my travel immensely, and walking around Berlin today I thought perhaps I should blog more about my trips various places, since that’s probably more interesting than some of the stuff I do write about. For instance, today I wandered off the street and into a gallery only to discover that they were …

Announcing a new book series on Duke University Press! Now, please help us name it.

Lisa Gitelman and I will be editing a new book series on Duke University Press. As Lisa put it, we “share a taste in books” and we thought it would be a good place to support empirically rich, theoretically engaged work on media, technologies and culture. And yes, of course it will also be a …