Publications
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Unprecedented?
(2022)
A critical and evidence-based account of the COVID-19 pandemic as a political–economic rupture, exposing underlying power struggles and social injustices.
Photography After Capitalism
(2022)
In Photography After Capitalism, Ben Burbridge makes the case for a radically expanded conception of photography, encompassing the types of labor too often obscured by black-boxed technologies, slick platform interfaces, ...
World's End
(2022)
A memoir and cultural history the World’s End, a West London area once home to bohemian artists and punk rock and now an outpost of neoliberalism.
Passport to Peckham
(2022)
An entertaining and engaging social and cultural history of the London community of Peckham that offers lessons in urban living.
Sonic Agency
(2018)
In a world dominated by the visual, could contemporary resistances be auditory? Sonic Agency highlights sound’s invisible, disruptive and affective qualities, and asks whether the unseen nature of sound can support a ...
Futilitarianism
(2021)
A proposal for countering the futility of neoliberal existence to build an egalitarian, sustainable, and hopeful future.
Death of Public Knowledge?
(2017)
The Death of Public Knowledge? insists upon the value of shared, publicly accessible information, and suggests that the erosion of its most visible forms, including public service broadcasting, education and the network ...
Inflamed Invisible
(2019)
A rich collection of essays tracing the relationship between art and sound. In the 1970s David Toop became preoccupied with the possibility that music was no longer bounded by formalities of audience: the clapping, the ...
Future for Public Service Television
(2018)
Television is on the edge of both decline and rebirth. Vast technological change has brought about financial uncertainty and creative possibilities for producers, distributors and viewers. The proliferation of platforms ...
Economic Science Fictions
(2019)
From the libertarian economics of Ayn Rand to Aldous Huxley’s consumerist dystopias, economics and science fiction have often circled each other’s spheres. In Economic Science Fictions, editor William Davies has deliberately ...
Can Markets Solve Problems?
(2019)
A provocative analysis of market-based interventions into public problems and the consequences.Market-based interventions have been used in attempts to solve numerous public problems, from education to healthcare and from ...
Stuart Hall
(2018)
Stuart Hall: Conversations, Projects and Legacies examines the career of the cultural studies pioneer, interrogating his influence and revealing lesser-known facets of his work. This collection of essays and photographs ...
Many Splendored Things
(2018)
We all know that sex involves a quest for pleasure, that sexual palates vary across people’s lifespans, and that playful experimentations play a key role in how people discover their diverse sexual turn-ons and turn-offs. ...
Phone & Spear
(2019)
A visually striking intercultural exploration of the use of mobile phones in Aboriginal communities in Australia. Yuta is the Yolngu word for new. Phone & Spear: A Yuta Anthropology is a project inspired by the gloriously ...
Future Gaming
(2018)
This book is not about the future of video games. It is not an attempt to predict the moods of the market, the changing profile of gamers, the benevolence or malevolence of the medium. There are sufficient bodies dedicated ...
The New Internationalists
(2020)
An account of the mobilization of thousands of volunteers who rescued, supported, and welcomed refugees during the recent European refugee crisis.
Bikes and Bloomers
(2020)
The bicycle in Victorian Britain is often celebrated as a vehicle of women's liberation. But much less is known about another critical technology with which women forged new and mobile public lives – cycle wear. Despite ...
Black Film British Cinema II
(2021)
The politics of race in British screen culture over the last 30 years vis-a-vis the institutional, textual, cultural and political shifts that have occurred during this period.
Data Practices
(2021)
How EU data practices establish and assign people to categories, and how this matters in enacting--"making up"--Europe as a population and people.
Forget Photography
(2021)
Why we must forget photography and reject the frame of reality it prescribes and delineates.
Extreme Fabulations
(2021)
An examination of science fiction narratives and the light they shed on human life, the unknowable future, and the vagaries of unforeseeable change. With this book, Steven Shaviro offers a thought experiment. He discusses ...
Teklife, Ghetto, Eski
(2021)
How black electronic dance music makes it possible to reorganize life within the contemporary city.
Technoprecarious
(2020)
An analysis that traces the role of digital technology in multiplying precarity.
The Presence Project
(2020)
The influential Presence Project brought together an international group of collaborators in 2001 to investigate how technology can be used to increase the presence of older people in their local communities. This became ...
Truth
(2023)
Ecologies of truth in a post-truth era.
Familiar Faces
(2022)
An exploration of the rich and varied relationship between photography and the most recent Argentine dictatorship.
Broadcast 41
(2020)
At the dawn of the Cold War era, forty-one women working in American radio and television were placed on a media blacklist and forced from their industry. The ostensible reason: so-called Communist influence. But in truth ...