Humanity Crash Test: Review of Extreme Fabulations by Steven Shaviro

Humanity Crash Test: Review of Extreme Fabulations: Science Fictions of Life by Steven Shaviro Sébastien Doubinsky Under Review: Extreme Fabulations. By Steven Shavrio. Goldsmiths Press, August 3, 2021. Steven Shaviro is a familiar figure for all those academically interested in speculative and science fiction. An all-around thinker, philosopher, and critic, he has written a number … Continue reading Humanity Crash Test: Review of Extreme Fabulations by Steven Shaviro

Product is Process: Review of Coding Democracy by Maureen Webb

Product is Process: Review of Coding Democracy: How Hackers Are Disrupting Power, Surveillance, and Authoritarianism by Maureen Webb C. A. Hines Under Review: Coding Democracy: How Hackers Are Disrupting Power, Surveillance, and Authoritarianism. By Maureen Webb. MIT Press, 2020 Maureen Webb’s Coding Democracy: How Hackers are Disrupting Power, Surveillance, and Authoritarianism casts a wide net, … Continue reading Product is Process: Review of Coding Democracy by Maureen Webb

Theorizing Uneven Distributions: Review of William Gibson and the Futures of Contemporary Culture, edited by Mitch R. Murray and Mathias Nilges

Theorizing Uneven Distributions: Review of William Gibson and the Futures of Contemporary Culture, edited by Mitch R. Murray and Mathias Nilges Jake Casella Brookins Under Review: William Gibson and the Futures of Contemporary Culture. Edited by Mitch R. Murray and Mathias Nilges . University of Iowa Press, March 15, 2021. William Gibson and the Futures … Continue reading Theorizing Uneven Distributions: Review of William Gibson and the Futures of Contemporary Culture, edited by Mitch R. Murray and Mathias Nilges

“Just Use the Keyboard”: Review of The Computer’s Voice: From Star Trek to Siri by Liz W. Faber

"Just Use the Keyboard: Review of The Computer's Voice: From Star Trek to Siri by Liz W. Faber Lisa Meinecke Under Review: The Computer's Voice: From Star Trek to Siri. By Liz W. Faber. University of Minnesota Press, 2020. There is a scene in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (a.k.a. The One With the … Continue reading “Just Use the Keyboard”: Review of The Computer’s Voice: From Star Trek to Siri by Liz W. Faber

Boundless Conversations for Boundless Liberation: Review of Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness edited by King, Navarro, and Smith

Boundless Conversations for Boundless Liberation: Review of Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness edited by King, Navarro, and Smith Sneha George Under Review: Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness. Edited by Tiffany Lethabo King, Jenell Navarro, Andrea Smith. Duke University Press, 2020. Note from the ARB editors, added May 30, 2021:Since the publication … Continue reading Boundless Conversations for Boundless Liberation: Review of Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness edited by King, Navarro, and Smith

An Unruly Nature: Review of Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire by Jack Halberstam

An Unruly Nature: Review of Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire by Jack Halberstam Margaryta Golovchenko Under Review: Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire. Jack Halberstam. Duke University Press, 2020. In the face of the impending and undeniable ecological crisis, the search for a solution and the call to change our current habits is sometimes … Continue reading An Unruly Nature: Review of Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire by Jack Halberstam

Joyful Study: Review of Experimental Games: Critique, Play, and Design in the Age of Gamification by Patrick Jagoda

Joyful Study: Review of Experimental Games: Critique, Play, and Design in the Age of Gamification by Patrick Jagoda Eric Stein Under Review: Experimental Games: Critique, Play, and Design in the Age of Gamification. Patrick Jagoda. University of Chicago Press, 2020. Patrick Jagoda’s Experimental Games is a thorough, insightful elaboration of an art-critical practice that he … Continue reading Joyful Study: Review of Experimental Games: Critique, Play, and Design in the Age of Gamification by Patrick Jagoda

The Global North Always Wins: Review of Militarized Global Apartheid by Catherine Besteman

The Global North Always Wins: Review of Militarized Global Apartheid by Catherine Besteman Joseph Hurtgen Under Review: Militarized Global Apartheid. Catherine Besteman. Duke University Press, 2020. Shahram: Why are there refugees? Amir: It is simple. The rich world plunders the poor world…. This is our situation. As long as there are plunderers, the plundered ones … Continue reading The Global North Always Wins: Review of Militarized Global Apartheid by Catherine Besteman

That Wascally Wabbit: Review of American Trickster: Trauma, Tradition, and Brer Rabbit by Emily Zobel Marshall

That Wascally Wabbit: Review of American Trickster: Trauma, Tradition, and Brer Rabbit by Emily Zobel Marshall Matthew Teutsch Under Review: American Trickster: Trauma, Tradition, and Brer Rabbit. Emily Zobel Marshall. Rowman & Littlefield, 2019. As a kid, I watched Bugs Bunny play his “wascally” tricks on Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, and other characters. I never … Continue reading That Wascally Wabbit: Review of American Trickster: Trauma, Tradition, and Brer Rabbit by Emily Zobel Marshall

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