Publications
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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 ...
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.
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 ...
Fandom as Methodology
(2019)
This highly visual history of women’s cycle wear brings together Victorian engineering, patent studies and radical feminist invention. Underpinned by three years of in-depth archival research and inventive practice, this ...
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.
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 ...
Futilitarianism
(2021)
A proposal for countering the futility of neoliberal existence to build an egalitarian, sustainable, and hopeful future.
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 ...
Broadcast 41
(2020)
Seeking a solution, pioneering women not only imagined, made and wore radical new forms of cycle wear, they also patented their inventive designs. The most remarkable of these were convertible costumes that enabled wearers ...
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 ...
Technoprecarious
(2020)
An analysis that traces the role of digital technology in multiplying precarity.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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, ...
Teklife, Ghetto, Eski
(2021)
How black electronic dance music makes it possible to reorganize life within the contemporary city.
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. ...
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 ...
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.
Forget Photography
(2021)
Why we must forget photography and reject the frame of reality it prescribes and delineates.
Passport to Peckham
(2022)
An entertaining and engaging social and cultural history of the London community of Peckham that offers lessons in urban living.