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Ann Blair, In the Scholar’s Workshop: Hidden Histories of Collaboration and Authorship – Princeton University Press, July/September 2026 For centuries, many of the world’s most influential thinkers routinely relied on helpers who performed tasks such as taking dictation, correcting, indexing, … Continue reading →

Roopika Risam, Data Empire: How Information Shaped Human History – Torva, July 2026 We live in an era when trading our information for access can feel harmless or inevitable – yet from targeted advertising to mass surveillance, data shapes the course … Continue reading →

Ali Fard, Grounding the Cloud: Urbanism in the Shadow of Data – University of Minnesota Press, June 2026 New Books discussion with Miranda Melcher – thanks to dmf for the link A detailed foray into the material and spatial realities … Continue reading →

Mathieu Quet, Koichi Kameda, Jessica Pourraz and Yves-Marie Rault-Chodankar eds. Technoscientific Globalisation from Below – Mattering Press, September 2025 (print and open access) Thanks to dmf for the link. Across eleven varied and lively chapters, Technoscientific Globalisation from Below provides fresh perspectives … Continue reading →

Perry Zurn, Cisgender: Disorienting a Category – Duke University Press, August 2026 Introduction open access at the above link Interview at the Duke University Press blog In Cisgender, Perry Zurn turns an incisive yet playful eye toward the “norm” against which transgender … Continue reading →

Scott Sundvall, Caddie Alford, Ira J. Allen eds. Rhetoric Before and Beyond Post-Truth – University of Pittsburgh Press, December 2026 Rhetoric has long had a contentious relationship with the idea of truth, and the field of contemporary rhetorical studies has often been skeptical of … Continue reading →