| April 22, 2016

hello, it’s me

Remember me? I used to blog here, back in the day. I stepped away because I was working on a book that overlapped a bit too much with the typical...

| September 18, 2015

coming attractions

Regular readers of this blog may remember a few months ago some posts revolving around 79 Theses on Technology that The Infernal Machine graciously published. I got some good feedback...

| July 8, 2015

Lord Macaulay and the News

One way to pursue the technological history of modernity is to try to understand how news and ideas got around at any given time. For instance, I wrote a short...

| July 1, 2015

my big fat intellectual project

If there is any one general topic that has preoccupied me in the last decade, it’s … well, it’s hard to put in a phrase. Let’s try this: The ways...

| June 24, 2015

more on the THM

So I continue to think about this whole technological history of modernity thing, about which I have some announcements. 1) A few days ago I thought Hey, I’m ready to...