In "The Elsewhere Is Black," Marisa Solomon traces the flow of trash and waste from Brooklyn to Virginia to examine how waste is a mundane part of poor Black survival and a condition of racial capitalism. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/nmdNHyj

I'm co-editing a Special Issue for Critical Studies in Media Communication on "Games & Storage" 📦 Guided by Zoe Sofia’s articulation of “container technologies” and how systems of storage are never neutral! Let's unlid Game Studies! Full CFP in 🧵👇Abstracts due April 22! Full drafts by June!

Huge congratulations to @haimson.bsky.social and his new book Trans Technologies!! So glad we could make it to his book launch event with Briar Baron at Bluestockings this past weekend — Oliver, I’m so looking forward to reading and teaching from your book now and for many years to come. 🥳 🎉 💜

this is what happens when artists take classes in media theory: they make incredibly ceramic tiles of the first page of McLuhan's "The Medium is the Message" and Heidegger's "The Question Concerning Technology" as part of their presentation! I mean really, people. Look at these things 😍

Very excited to have a piece in this new collection. Incredible work by Zach, Melody, and Jennifer!

From an idea in 2008 to a book in 2025, ECHOES OF CARE: DEAFNESS IN MODERN BRITAIN has been published by @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social ! It explores how changing perceptions of deafness intersected with healthcare, disability, and eugenics in 19th-century Britain. www.mqup.ca/echoes-of-ca...

I wish there was a way to quantify the collective amount of work lost due to stress and despair over the last few weeks, independent of barriers to funding.

New from the Queer and Trans SCMS Caucus: a starter pack to stay in touch! We’ve read your responses to our survey asking to transition from Meta to Bsky & we’re starting by offering this pack. A QTC account will follow. We’re excited to connect, lmk if you’d like to be added! go.bsky.app/G4eA51z

“In order to shoot off one email per week for a year, ChatGPT would use up 27 liters of water, or about one-and-a-half jugs… that means if one in 10 U.S. residents—16 million people—asked ChatGPT to write an email a week, it’d cost more than 435 million liters of water.”

“…it’s a wildly worthwhile thing, to immerse oneself in a landscape, and savoring the scents of place is a crucial element of this process… Sniffing, searching, naming: These actions enable us to more thoughtfully engage with our environment.”

BIPOC game studies conference at the Rochester Museum of Play is looking for submissions. Deadline is soon!

I am very much a min-maxing person when it comes to my own labor and I find that it’s hard for me to stop & rest after I get into the writing process — as if I need to be working to complete exhaustion each day. Working on being kind to myself and setting a firm stopping point after so many hours 🪴

One thing I have learned while writing this book is that the act of writing is transformative and the book ends up being often more ambitious than the book proposal (a good thing!). I learned a similar thing in my PhD and how my dissertation opened up so much from the dissertation proposal

T-minus less than 2 months (give or take!) to completing and submitting my book manuscript. Aiming to submit things in February — just working on putting in the hours each day. Today I’m working on finishing up my chapter on the connected histories of computational and biological determinism

I was invited to serve as a Critic in Residence at the International Studio & Curatorial Program this winter — it’s been lovely speaking with the artists in residence about their art practice and the ideas they’re thinking through in their work. Many thanks to Melinda Lang and ISCP for inviting me.

by @poww.bsky.social! "By positioning medical history, medical documentation & medical legislation as types of media that retain & contain trans history...[we] better see how computational media...has always contained the shape of trans lives & our pasts & presents." drive.google.com/file/d/11EQd...

Hi new followers! I work in transgender media studies & computer history. My article, "How the Computer Taught Us to See," is now out - I look at how computers teach us to see like the state, & how these modes of seeing are inherently linked to race and trans life. www.whitneypow.com/articles/how...

🚨Job Listing 🚨 My dept., Media, Culture, and Communication @ NYU, is hiring an Asst. Prof of Indigenous Media and Culture w/ a focus on "Indigenous theories and practices of knowledge production ... methodologies and critique." Closing date is Dec 31. Please share widely! apply.interfolio.com/158482

Hi ✨ Together with Anna Schjøtt Hansen and Tobias Blanke, I organize the #CriticalAI Seminar Series @uvahumanities.bsky.social. This is the 24-25 program🙌 ⚡The sessions are online and open to everyone, find more info and sign up here: t.co/ScqpC7ZDrT

Here’s a collection of over 140 syllabus statements on AI, collected by @leaton01.bsky.social: aiedusimplified.substack.com/p/ai-syllabi...

pub day! please welcome "Network breakdown: the queer anarchist politics at the heart of the ‘net from FidoNet to HOMOCORE" to the world the piece puts Tom Jennings' work as the co-architect of FidoNet alongside the queer, anarchist politics in his zine HOMOCORE www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

With the many absurd #SCMS2025 rejections today, seems apt to mention the SLSA CFP is out here: litsciarts.org/2024/11/09/s... SLSA interprets its annual themes extremely capaciously, and chooses venues with the aim to accommodate the vast majority of apps—consider repurposing your panels for it!

This is my first time ever being rejected from SCMS since I started applying in 2014. What a brilliant group of people to be rejected with! @scrichmond.bsky.social, maybe we should apply to SLSA with our panel?

Thrilled to finally upload THE DIRTY BOOK: A USERS GUIDE TO EROTIC SOFTWARE (1982) up on @archive.org. @textfiles.com helped me nab this on ebay, @philsalv.bsky.social did the scans for VGHF. So what is this thing? 🧵👇 archive.org/details/the-...

"This wrkshp will convene scholars, practitioners, artists, + activists to reflect, critique, + imagine the manifold ways that digital, physical, + social infrastructures are built, broken, reconstructed, + mythologized..l We invite participants to craft a short 📢, 👀, or ✍️ narrative..."

Your homework. inthesetimes.com/article/toni...

🚨 The Carceral AI report is out! 🚫 Read the recommendations of global activists and researchers to resist technologies designed to police, incarcerate, surveil, and control human beings. carceral-ai.com Download the pdf on SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Seeing many ppl coming over to bsky, so thought I'd start this in an area my & CBI's symposia, archives, oral history, pubs & editing interest. Please suggest others or yourself as the inititial list is just a start... go.bsky.app/9NBiqH9

GAMES AGAINST THE EMPIRE is a gallery show curated in partnership with Night City Games @nightcitygames, exhibiting a collection of independent games that mechanically or thematically examine imperialism, colonialism, oppression, and resistance.

oh well I made the experimental game dev starter pack. blsky was really stressing when I tried to search to add more people so please @ me for more people to add go.bsky.app/CWmf15W

Hey friends! I went and quickly put together a starter pack for those of us who research media technology history. It's got some glaring ommisions at the moment, so please send me more names.

More evidence of genAI’s current waste

As Bluesky gains popularity, more spammers / trolls are showing up. HAPPILY, Bluesky has many tools to help you control what you do & don't see...including controlling who can reply, hiding replies, etc. Pls read my newly updated Moderation tips: publish.obsidian.md/debbieohi/bl... #BlueSkyTips

last chance to sign up for school for poetic computation winter 2025 classes on "solidarity infrastructures", "narrative constellations", "drawing data by hand", "gift interfaces", "relational reconstruction" and "the browser is already a game engine" sfpc.study

If you met an adult who'd never played a video game in their life but was willing to give them a try, what game would you recommend as their first to get them hooked?

Tried to roundup a list of folks in critical disability studies & disability justice work that I know of who are already on here, please lmk if there's someone else i should add! go.bsky.app/NJWgurk

Hey, I started a Trans Studies starter pack, but it needs more names. I can add them, I think. Here it is, so far: go.bsky.app/UAtsVTH

"I’m tired — as are many of us [othered] others — of being asked to repair profoundly extractionist, racist, suprematist systems... You want me to repair the image of your [institution]? Why [wld] I want to repair a discipline, a process, a protocol... that clearly is for some, and not for others?"

"Some essays have... structure + not enough mood; some essays are all mood in shapeless space... The veil of order is structure; the chaos that shimmers, the light that moves inside the text, is mood. Mood moving thru structure may be what gives essays energy, the energy that nearly escapes control"

‘Clouded Vision: Artists’ Insights on the Internet’ Interesting article by Mia Stern for The Brooklyn Rail about artistic practices that approach the materiality of the internet. brooklynrail.org/2024/07/art-...

my dissertation, "crip data studies," is now out in the world! may be helpful for folks working on projects at the intersections of disability studies, creator studies, + digital media. please read + share! macsphere.mcmaster.ca/handle/11375...

I need suggestions for this.

Though I suspect it is going beyond a BSky's idea of a starter pack and turning into a "instant community" pack, I love seeing all of you pipe up so that I can put you in the Gaming the Past pack of people thinking and doing in historical game studies, in and out of eductation. go.bsky.app/DCc9miK

Check out this game studies starter pack, assembled by @vthewanderer.bsky.social. Lots of awesome folks in there!

reply if you'd like to be added! Feminist media people, unite!!! go.bsky.app/497Tp3t

Not sure why the image didn't turn up with the link. Here it is again: go.bsky.app/35LVzZ4

Reposting for Bluesky newcomers in my professional orbit (and because it's the height of promotion & tenure season) my earlier posts on a revision I helped lead: the MLA's expansion of its “Guidelines for Evaluating Digital Scholarship.” www.mla.org/About-Us/Gov...

Lauren Williams has launched a 🌟 new interactive project, Making Room for Abolition - featuring essays, dispatches, and (my favorite) a collection of artifacts that embody abolitionist principles www.makingroom.online

I'm currently collecting oral histories (queerdigital.com/collections/...) from LGBTQ folks who were active from the 1980s to the mid-2000s, but especially during the BBS and early Walled Garden era (Prodigy, AOL, CompuServe, etc). If this is you and you'd like to participate, please reach out!