Types of guys: the production of a folk taxonomy of masculinity

December 7, 2021 8:45 pm
Richard Gall

If you’ve spent time within a particular type of online space in recent years you might be familiar with the…

Bureaucratic technology and the limits of solutionism at Cop26

December 7, 2021 6:39 pm

In The Utopia of Rules the late David Graeber argues that we have moved from poetic to bureaucratic technologies (2016).…

The world on a grid: Accidentally Wes Anderson and empty aesthetics

November 27, 2021 5:04 pm

'Accidentally Wes Anderson' is a social media phenomenon. Starting life as an Instagram account which curates photographs - produced by…

The pleasures of surveillance: Re-reading Marwick through Foucault

November 18, 2021 5:36 pm

Alice Marwick’s conception of social surveillance (Marwick, 2012) builds heavily on Foucault’s notion of “capillaries of power” in which power…

The future of observability: smarter troubleshooting with change intelligence

September 23, 2021 9:01 am

Sponsored by 10KMedia. Trends like observability have underlined that one of the key challenges facing engineering teams in the last…

Substation: how an open source alternative to Substack could help us rediscover a more independent and adventurous culture

May 13, 2021 11:49 am

“If I get really excited about licensing schemes, kill me,” software developer Jesse von Doom says. We’re talking about open…

Can we build a better content ecosystem without making big tech the discourse police? [Interview with Jillian York]

April 23, 2021 11:56 am

The apparent simplicity of our digital lives, governed by a revolving series of platforms on which the same content continually…

The DevOps trends and tools putting a renewed focus on maintenance and care in tech

February 10, 2021 4:14 pm

This post is sponsored by 10KMedia. After 12 months of uncertainty and crisis, resilience and stability have become more urgent…

Tech for good is a con trick – it’s time to demand better from the industry

January 21, 2021 5:21 pm

'Tech for good' isn’t really a movement. It’s more of a posture - one that merely signals good intentions. While…

Stop using social media as an easy explanation for the violence at the Capitol

January 9, 2021 1:59 pm

Barely hours after crowds rioters left the Capitol, commentators began formulating their responses to the extraordinary events of January 6th.…

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