Olson situates the urban geography of Paris and the very material of maps of the city at the heart of the story of Republican national consolidation, from the initial stabilization of the Third Republic to the 1930s...

Prior explores the social, cultural and industrial contexts for the changes that have taken place in popular music since the widespread adoption of digital technology by creators, distributors, and listeners from the early 1980s onward...

How does technology shape music?

Your building has the potential to change the world...

Looking at wealth of case studies among Amazon reviewers, redditors, and established journals, "Update Culture" is a deep diver into the many factors that contribute to the circulation of a digital text

What would you do if you questioned your religious faith, but revealing that would cause you to lose your family and the only way of life you had ever known?

Monnais examines the globalization of the pharmaceutical industry, looking at both circulation and consumption, considering access to drugs and the existence of multiple therapeutic options in a colonial context...

Brock theorizes what it means to be Black online, particularly when the physical body can neither be understood nor constrained...

Vinsel argues that automobiles have been shaped by government regulation through and through...

The ubiquity of technology that collects massive volumes of all kinds of data lends itself to one overarching question: “What?” As in what is the purpose(s) of this collection? What are the benefits? And, what are the impacts?

How we design our cities over the next four decades will be critical for our planet...

How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?

Roush examines one of the great unsolved problems in science: is there life, intelligent or otherwise, on other planets?

The essays in this volume reshape our understanding of Latin America's Long Cold War.

Our conversation covers innovative progress underway in replacing reactive medicine with precision and prevention...

Hilty and her co-authors expand on concepts and practices important to maintaining and restoring land connectivity...

Tong looks at the extraordinary range of mating systems in the avian world, exploring all the stages from courtship and nest-building to protecting eggs and raising chicks...

In this episode, we discuss the pandemic when it was a ‘perhaps’, unpack the blurring of reason and faith among expert interlocutors and draw out lessons on preparedness and its paradoxes for the present global coronavirus crisis...

Magnusson provides a sweeping overview of the tools and techniques of music-making both before and after the dawn of computing...

This book paints the landscape that brought computing into the imagination, production, and management of the built environment, whilst foregrounding the impact of architecture in shaping technological development...

Stauffer reconstructs the history of Mexico's forgotten "Religionero" rebellion of 1873-1877, an armed Catholic challenge to the government of Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada...

Koerber shows that the boundary between older, nonscientific ways of understanding women’s bodies and newer, scientific understandings is much murkier than we might expect...

Asseraf examines the workings of the “news ecosystem” in Algeria from the 1880s to the beginning of the Second World War...

Whooley’s book is no anti-psychiatric screed; instead, he reveals a field that has muddled through periodic reinventions and conflicting agendas of curiosity, compassion, and professional striving.

Nahin offers a thorough study of the history and mathematics of the heat equation, which is not only important as an analysis of heat, its analysis marked the beginning of Fourier series...

According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...

Currie explains that these scientists are “methodological omnivores,” with a variety of strategies and techniques at their disposal, and that this gives us every reason to be optimistic about their capacity to uncover truths about prehistory...

Selwyn examines the concepts, tools and practices that sociologists are developing to analyze the intersections of the social and the digital...

Roberts reveals the nuances of Chinese censorship in the age of the internet...

Finocchiaro shows that there were (and are) really two Galileo “affairs.”

Reagle examines these attempts to systematize living and finds that they are the latest in a long series of self-improvement methods...

An interview with Ryan P. Burge

Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus when she was nineteen years old on a bet...

Sorgner makes the case for a Nietzschean transhumanism...

Kravetz examines how German women physicians gained a foothold in the medical profession during the Weimar and Nazi periods,..

Appelbaum reconstructs how elites, through visual and textual methodologies, envisioned the nation and its component parts...

Turner explains why AI is unique, what legal and ethical problems it could cause, and how we can address them...

Adrian Wisnicki talks about the British expeditionary literature of the late 1800s.

Whitington examines the dynamics and discourses centered around the development of hydropower dams in the Mekong River Basin...

Devlin builds on the science and the philosophy surrounding our most intimate relationship with technology...

D'Ignazio and Klein call for changing the way we think about data and how it is communicated, particularly through visualization...

Rechtenwald argues that Big Digital technologies and their principals represent not only economic powerhouses but also new forms of governmental power...

Should robots have rights?

How does the world of book reviews work?

If you live in America, chances are good you’ve heard the term “mental health crisis” bandied about in the media...

Amy Shira Teitel talks about Apollo and the community of people who are deeply attached to space history.

Eubanks systematically investigates the impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and working-class people in America...

Dr. Alistair Sponsel talks about Darwin’s experiences on HMS Beagle and his early career as a naturalist...

Jones engages readers in a five-year mixed-methods study she conducted on the erotic webcam industry where she tells a pornographic story about the multibillion-dollar online sex industry that is colloquially known as “camming.”

Minerva discusses the moral concerns of cryonics...

Halegoua rethinks everyday interactions that humans have with digital infrastructures, navigation technologies, and social media as we move through the world...

Eyal argues that what needs to be explained is not a one-sided “mistrust of experts” but the two-headed pushmi-pullyu of unprecedented reliance on science and expertise, on the one hand, coupled with increased skepticism and dismissal of scientific findings and expert opinion, on the other...

The disappearance of the Franklin Expedition in 1845 turned the Arctic into an object of fascination...

How can we possibly improve the chances that the human family will not only live, but live well, into the 21st century and beyond?

What is the human and environmental cost of music?

Newman sets out to provide an explication of the debates surrounding network neutrality...

Ochs combines experiences from her childhood with her research and expertise on teens and teen culture to write about experiences of teens and parents in navigating smartphones and increasing access to digital spaces...

Catherine Newell talks about the religious roots of the final frontier, focusing on the collaboration of artist Chesley Bonestell, science writer Willy Ley, and the NASA rocket engineer Wernher von Braun...

If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...

Can robots be our friends?

Phillips crafts a compelling narrative sure to delight baseball fans and historians of the human sciences alike...

Over the last several years, overdose prevention has become the unlikely object of a social movement, powered by the miracle drug naloxone...

Neil Maher talks about the social forces that shaped NASA in the 1960s and 70s, connecting the space race with the radical upheavals of the counterculture...

Every day, new warnings emerge about artificial intelligence rebelling against us.,,

Bahcall reveals a surprising new way of thinking about the mysteries of group behavior that challenges everything we thought we knew about nurturing radical breakthroughs...

Anderson provides a history of pigs in America from the first arrival on the continent in the Columbian Exchange to the modern agribusiness of pork production...

The “smart city,” presented as the ideal, efficient, and effective for meting out services, has capture the imaginations of policymakers, scholars, and urban-dweller. But what are the possible drawbacks of living in an environment that is constantly collecting data?

Daniel Kennefick talks about resistance to relativity theory in the early twentieth century and the huge challenges that faced British astronomers who wanted to test the theory during the solar eclipse of 1919...

This book aims to contribute significantly to the understanding of issues of value which repeatedly emerge in interdisciplinary discussions on space and society...

Pearson recounts France’s collision with the UN and World Health Organization in the immediate post-World War II years...

How did the modern, American body come into being?

Hill and Martinez-Diaz draw on their personal experiences as senior officials in the Obama Administration to tell behind-the-scenes stories of what it really takes to advance progress on climate change issues...

Sexbots are coming...

What happens when the digital world meets Sufism?

Many centuries before the emergence of the scientific consensus on climate change, people began to imagine the existence of a global environment: a natural system capable of changing humans and of being changed by them...

How did Muslims respond to foreign goods in an age characterized by global exchange and European imperial expansion?

Petel and Moore takes the reader through the long history of the search for lower production costs, extending from European colonial conquests in the fifteenth century up to present agroindustrial systems...

In the aftermath of Prohibition, America’s top scientists joined forces with members of a new group, called Alcoholics Anonymous, and put their clout behind a campaign to convince the nation that alcoholism was a disease rather than a moral failing...

O’Hara uncovers a vast array of social practices in colonial Mexico that force us to reconsider who owns the future...

Schulten uses maps to explore five centuries of American history, from the voyages of European discovery to the digital age...

In the late 1500s, the mines of Potosí –a mountain in southern Bolivia — produced 60% of the world’s silver...

Whether we realize it or not, "adcreep"―modern marketing's march to create a world where advertising can be expected anywhere and anytime―has come,..

Danaher explores the issues facing us as we confront our own obsolescence. He defends the idea that a workless future is not only possible, but possibly utopian...

Wakild and Berry offers strategies and approaches that educators can apply in a variety of settings: from high school classrooms to college courses, and from environmental history and environmental studies courses to US and world history surveys...

Why do Americans eat so much beef?

Angelina Callahan talks about the Naval Research Laboratory’s Vanguard Project...

Subramanian provides an insightful account of their emergence is post-independence India as a set of distinct and “world class” institutions underwritten by the Indian state...

"An Ecotopian Lexicon" explores dozens of possible loanwords from world cultures, activists subcultures, and speculative fiction that can inform novel quotidian practices, cosmological insights, and political orientations applicable to the age of the Anthropocene...

Friss historicizes the bicycle’s place in New York City’s social, economic, infrastructural and cultural politics...

Humans are accustomed to being tool bearers, but what happens when machines become tool bearers, calculating human labour via the use of big data and people analytics by metrics?

Focusing in on the Portuguese colonies in Brazil and Angola and on the imperial capital of Lisbon, Breen deftly explores the process by which novel drugs were located, commodified, and consumed...

Much has been written about Millennials, but until now their growing presence in the field of architecture has not been examined in depth...

Liu makes a massive contribution to the field by opening up a fascinating new vista for scholars of cybernetics, film studies, literature, media studies, science and technology studies, and beyond...

Fuller debates the concept of transforming human nature, including such thorny topics as humanity's privilege as a species...

From its crude and uneasy beginnings thirty years ago, Chinese sperm banking has become a routine part of China’s pervasive and restrictive reproductive complex...

Sperber analyzes online consumer management, a practice in which customers monitor, report on, and—sometimes unwittingly—discipline workers through writing and posting online reviews...

What is creativity? What is the relationship between work life and personal life? How is it possible to live truthfully in a world of contradiction and compromise?

Cabrera discusses three possible human enhancement paradigms and explores how each involves different values, uses of technology, and different degrees and kinds of ethical concerns...

"Made Modern" explores the complex interconnections between science, technology, and modernity in Canada...

Never have so many possessed the means to be so lethal..