sean cubitt's blog

Even the YouTube trailer has me between rage and tears. I swapped mails with Steve the night of his arrest (I spotted the story on late nig...

In the relation between hardware, software and wetware, hardware is clearly technical (apparatus, technology, techne), software functions a...

In the monstrous reorganisation of society as population management, and of knowledge as data flow, we face an impossible choice. We may su...

Media are the medium of history, as a hammer is the medium of the blow.

All books are written in the present but read in the past. This unfortunate fact is also true for the author.

Newly invented as the moment of consciousness and of change, the present was almost without delay manipulated into the moment of production....

To embrace the irrational is merely to embrace the obverse of instrumental rationality. In its own way bataillean surrealism is also instrum...