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Energy at the End of the World
Making local energy futures, from marine energy to hydrogen fuel, at the edge of the world.The islands of Orkney, off the northern coast of Scotland, are closer to the Arctic …
Design Unbound: Designing for Emergence in a White Water World
Tools for navigating today's hyper-connected, rapidly changing, and radically contingent white water world.Design Unbound presents a new tool set for having agency in the …
A Vast Machine
The science behind global warming, and its history: how scientists learned to understand the atmosphere, to measure it, to trace its past, and to model its future.Global warming …
Knowledge for Sale
How free-market fundamentalists have shifted the focus of higher education to competition, metrics, consumer demand, and return on investment, and why we should change this.A new …
Design Unbound
Tools for navigating today's hyper-connected, rapidly changing, and radically contingent white water world.Design Unbound presents a new tool set for having agency in the …
Paid
Stories about objects left in the wake of transactions, from cryptocurrencies to leaf-imprinted banknotes to records kept with knotted string.Museums are full of the coins, notes, …
Gaming the Metrics
How the increasing reliance on metrics to evaluate scholarly publications has produced new forms of academic fraud and misconduct.The traditional academic imperative to "publish or …
Subversion, Conversion, Development
Explorations of design, use, and reuse of information technology in diverse historical and cultural contexts.This book explores alternative cultural encounters with and around …
The Charisma Machine
A fascinating examination of technological utopianism and its complicated consequences.In The Charisma Machine, Morgan Ames chronicles the life and legacy of the One Laptop per …
The Demonstration Society
Letters, Power Lines, and Other Dangerous Things
An examination of how post-9/11 security concerns have transformed the public view and governance of infrastructure.After September 11, 2001, infrastructures-the mundane systems …