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,..

"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...

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?

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...

A lot of politicians like to say that there are “two Americas,” but do any of them know what life is really like for the marginalized poor?

What does Friends mean to us now?

Free market capitalism has failed women...

Braun documents the history and present-day use of an everyday medical instrument, the spirometer, which measures a person’s lung capacity...

Increasing levels of globalization have led to the proliferation of spaces of international exchange...

We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?

20 years ago, Srdja Popovic was part of a revolution — literally.

Wiebe discusses environmental reproductive justice, political ethnography, her method of “sensing policy”...

Finlayson traces their dispute from its inception in their earliest works to the 1995 exchange and its aftermath, as well as its legacy in contemporary debates...

What are the true sources of inequality?

Nobody should feel excited about the renewed relevance of Hannah Arendt's work today...

González Hernando explores how think tanks were impacted by the 2008 crisis.

How do states use cultural policy?

Ian shares with us his encounter with British psychoanalysis’s “entangled world of personal-political relationships and rivalries"...

What is the future of the museum?

Houston’s finds three major social values--social justice, sustainability, and creativity—pervade policy creation in the city and condition privileges and oppressions...

Stuart Schrader makes the compelling case that the growth of carceral state is just one front of a “discretionary empire” that persists today...

Eidsheim contents that vocal timbre is an even stronger marker for race and gender than physical appearance...

What do university presses do, and how do they do it?

Fong revitalizes two oft’ maligned psychoanalytic concepts, the death drive and the drive to mastery...

How should we understand work?