"Layered both literally and figuratively on top of the future pathway of the Google internet infrastructure, the sugarcane railway tracks evoke the longevity of colonial infrastructures as well as the ideologies underlying them." – @emmaquilty.bsky.social datasociety.net/points/confr...

New The Cloud is Dead essay: @emmaquilty.bsky.social writes about data centers, undersea cables, and histories of colonialism in Fiji for @datasociety.bsky.social Points Emma is also a scholar of witches. And you should definitely get her book, Witch Power: Hexing the Patriarchy with Feminist Magic

As big tech companies appeal to small island countries’ anxieties about being left behind, @emmaquilty.bsky.social considers how efforts to transform islands into digital hubs obscure the power and agency of these places and their people. datasociety.net/points/confr...

My first physical copy of Witch Power has arrived!! The Melbourne book launch is on the 16th of Oct, here is the link to register: www.trybooking.com/events/landi... To pre-order the book: www.readings.com.au/product/9781...

Melbourne Folks! I will be hosting a book launch to celebrate The Mechanic and the Luddite! Come hear me chat about the book with Lizzie O'Shea and Chris O'Neill — and have a free drink! • August 14th, 6pm, Victorian Trades Hall • Register for free: events.humanitix.com/sadowkski-th...

We will send the open letter to ANU executive and Council today at 3pm. At 7.30am, we have 434 signatures. How high can we get before 3pm? Tell your colleagues, spread the word!

New (and timely) book just arrived in my hands this morning! Co-authored with wonderful Sarah Pink. Pre-orders available here: www.routledge.com/Can-We-Trust...

Starting the year off strong with a new article in Trauma, Violence & Abuse! 🎉 Technology-Facilitated Violence in the Indo-Pacific: A Scoping Review. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🧡🧡🧡 Here's the link to the amazing book!! www.ucpress.edu/books/the-me...

Cybertruck man defying Musk vs Pod Man the techie douche-bro. My money is on Cyber-truck man. Image credit: Miranda Burton

In the new TMK Premium, I sat down with Sunaura Taylor in her lab at UC Berkeley for a big chat about her excellent new book—Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert—which brings together critical disability studies and environmental justice. www.patreon.com/posts/premiu...

AusSTS2025 @aussts.bsky.social is going to be here in Naarm/Melbourne in July, sponsored by Deakin's Science and Society Network + @sthv.bsky.social The call for proposals is now OPEN (closes 15 March) so please submit + spread the word: aussts.org/aussts-2025-...

nothing is certain except death, taxes, and tech bros trying to reinvent something they spent 10 minutes learning about

Fab new op-ed on the future benefits AI promises to deliver and why they stink of desperation (and more often than not, fall short):

Thrilled to announce the official publication of my new book — The Mechanic and the Luddite: A Ruthless Criticism of Technology and Capitalism Grab my book to go beyond the vaporous hype and get the real material analysis of technological capitalism that we all need! www.ucpress.edu/books/the-me...

This is unbelievably good www.youtube.com/shorts/J_swG...

BAY AREA FRIENDS – Come to my new book's launch on January 30th at 7pm (PST) at City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco! It's gonna be a blast with special guests @bigblackjacobin.bsky.social and @bcmerchant.bsky.social. Registration is necessary but free: citylights.com/events/jatha...