Author: Matthew Paskins
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Brown, Nathan, The Limits of Fabrication: Materials Science, Materialist Poetics
Nathan Brown, The Limits of Fabrication: Materials Science, Materialist Poetics (New York: Fordham University Press, 2017) 312 pp. £30.00 Hb. ISBN: 9780823272990 Nathan Brown’s The Limits of Fabrication is based an analogy between poetics and material science. These practices are united, in Brown’s view, by a shared concern with ‘fabrication’ and material limits: in their…
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Simanowski, Roberto, Data Love: The Seduction and Betrayal of Digital Technologies
Roberto Simanowski, Data Love: The Seduction and Betrayal of Digital Technologies, trans. Brigitte Pichon, John Cayley and Dorian Rydnystsky (New York: Columbia University Press 2016) 176 pp. $30.00 Hb. ISBN: 9780231177269 A notable feature of many recent science fiction novels is that they imagine a future for social media which is very much like its…
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Jasanoff, Sheila and Sang-Hyun Kim (eds), Dreamscapes of Modernity: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Fabrication of Power
Sheila Jasanoff and Sang-Hyun Kim, eds, Dreamscapes of Modernity: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Fabrication of Power (Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2015) 360 pp. $105.00 Hb. $35.00 Pb. ISBN: 9780226276496 Visions of the future, such as those contained within science fiction, involve depictions of social and technological change as closely related processes. Despite these familiar…
