Material Epistemologies of the (Mobile) Telephone
This is a preprint of an article that appears in the Spring 2018 issue of Anthropology Quarterly, part of the special collection on Unseen Connections: The Materiality of Cell Phones. …
Shopping for the System
This is a draft of a talk I delivered at the Maintainers II: Labor, Technology, and Social Orders Conference on April 6-9, 2017 as part of our telephone panel, “Dial M …
These Men Made Your Telephone
I’ve been spending a lot of time on how ways of knowing about production have changed. One of my favorite images for this is a 1923 Western Electric ad that …
