Social Media Ideas for Deb Chachra

Electric Mountains, Collective Care, and Why We Didn’t Dam the Grand Canyon: Deb Chachra’s How Infrastructure Works

A fascinating work that envisions infrastructure as a mode of communal caretaking The post Electric Mountains, Collective Care, and Why We Didn’t Dam the Grand Canyon: Deb Chachra’...

Artisanal Technology and Mechanical Brides: Ursula M. Franklin’s The Real World of Technology

Exploring how tech and engineering interact with power, belief, and structures of freedom and control. The post Artisanal Technology and Mechanical Brides: Ursula M. Franklin’s &lt...

Neuroqueering design practice

A look into design as a craft through the lens of neuroqueering.Illustration by Kristina Gushcheva-KeippiläI remember reading Robert Chapman’s Empire of Normality at a strange thre...

The Enshittocene Strikes Back: Centaurs, Reverse Centaurs, and the Battle for Worker Agency

Cambridge, MA – MIT Media Lab – EmTech Future. Few cultural critics can diagnose digital rot with the ferocious precision, moral clarity, and linguistic flair of Cory Doctorow. Tak...

Pruning

An Ecosystem of Her Own

Maren Hassinger’s alchemical touch transforms the most resistant materials into evocations of the endlessly changing natural world.

Academic Fabrication: Is the Case of Designer Science an Isolated One?

"There are tales readily believed by scholars, 'in order to live' — because the ideological campus discourse is beyond question." Source

Reading, Questioning, and Uncovering in Design

“Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back”Continue reading on Medium »

The Enshittocene Strikes Back: Centaurs, Reverse Centaurs, and the Battle for Worker Agency

Cambridge, MA – MIT Media Lab – EmTech Future. Few cultural critics can diagnose digital rot with the ferocious precision, moral clarity, and linguistic flair of Cory Doctorow. Tak...

Mining is Essential. It Doesn’t Have to be Wasteful.

Greeshma Gadikota is developing a wide range of new approaches for sustainably acquiring and refining the raw inputs that become hardware and energy.

Thinking Through the Hand: Atelier CRAFT on Design and Making

What narratives do materials carry, and how can the visible "traces" of artisans engage in a dialogue with manufacturing processes and industrialization? Between design and constru...

Friday Fragments

Friday Fragments Sara Brady Fri, 10/02/2026 - 03:00 AM History is cunning, Michigan’s grading experiment and first job experiences. Byline(s)...

Productive Friction: What Universities Must Protect in the Age of AI

One of the readings that my students always pick as their favorite lesson about digital media economics comes from the late 1990s when Google engineers accidentally found gold in t...

Ya Gotta Read The Syllabus!!

One of the most frustrating aspects about the debate over the degree to which “Wokeness” (never defined) has taken over the Academy (or not) is that it relies almost exclusively on...

Mona Chalabi on making sense of the unmeasurable

The multi award-winning illustrator joins our US editor-at-large Elizabeth Goodspeed on the New York Nicer Tuesdays stage to talk about everything from her first job at the UN to h...

What stories should we tell about science now?

This is Jessica. Like many academics, I am concerned about what sort of new steady state U.S. universities will find themselves in after the dust settles on recent transitions. Nam...

Saying No for Change: Dawn Chan On Grounding Herself in a Jet-Setting World

The critic and CCS Bard lecturer has sent proxies, collaborators and even a namesake doppelganger to biennials and other cultural events, turning the art world's jet-set habits int...

Ada Loves Code: Bringing Poetical Science and Human Warmth to Open Source

Sup Dev.to! Thanks for reading! This is Mike Cramblett, a human developer and ad-hoc researcher. I'm excited to share my new open-source project: Ada Loves Code (ALC)—a code-compl...

Sure Pathways

How green is your robot? And other awkward questions

Deborah Lupton / Servers in a Landscape / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0 By Emmet Cole Robots clean rivers and sort waste, monitor ecosystems, and inspect renewable-energy infrastructure. B...

How did a professional’s own lab battles lead to new medical frameworks?

Dr Brandy Zachary discusses how her own experiences navigating complicated medical frameworks gave her the motivation to redesign the system. Read more: How did a professional’s ow...

Our Information Ecosystem is Toxic. But We Can Clean It Up

  Amy Westervelt’s new book “Brought To You By” is not about the climate crisis so much as it is about our overarching, inextricable information crisis that makes climate change th...

Tossing the Digital Stash

Online classes are a boon of the modern age—but how do you keep track of them?

Documenting the tech worker movement

Writing as a participant and researcher, PhD student JS Tan SM ’22 has co-authored a new book about the rise of tech worker protests and the employer backlash that followed.