Brandon Marcus

For Marx, technological development underlay the development of modes of production and, therefore, historical forms of society; for McLuhan, media de

Software has always been different from physical goods in that its zero marginal cost nature meant it could scale to far more people; at the same time

Hence, 20th century state planning and 21st century social media evangelism are different flavors of what Scott called “high modernism ... a sweeping,

what gives categories their authority—what makes them appear natural to us—is the fact that they are collectively crafted, sustained, and enforced. Th

Culture is itself a code/space. The danger of this emphasis on the coproduction of physical and cultural space by computation is that it in turn occlu

Just as global telecommunications have collapsed time and space, computation conflates past and future. That which is gathered as data is modelled as

The arguments for breaking up concentrations of property were at once pragmatic and political. For the new republic to remain free, land, wealth, and