Neoliberalism, the Public Intellectual, and the Decline of History
Modern scholars who want their work to reach audiences beyond their students and colleagues may find role models in the history of their own discipline.
Tag: Technology
Disrupting Technological Capitalism
As progressives who believe in the power of unions and the necessity of unity against an exploitative capitalist class who treats workers as commodities, this situation forces us to ask an important question: what will the future of work look like?
The Design of the Everyday Diversity Industrial Complex
We must cast a critical eye toward the diversity conversation within the tech industry as it impacts who’s employed in that industry, the types of products they produce, who writes about those products, who those products are made for, and who benefits from those products.
From Steamship to Phonograph: Frederick Douglass, David Blight, and the Politics of Memory
We may not have to listen to Frederick Douglass, but isn’t it extraordinary that we can choose to do so?
Broken Windows, Shattered Lives: Mapping Technology and Policing Failures in Giuliani’s New York
While it is not fair to say that technology is bad, the New York City Police Department (NYPD), with its deployment of geospatial software for crime analysis in the 1990s, provides an example of how technology can become dangerous.
Technology and the Outcome of American Colonization
The acceptance of colonization as inevitable does not exist in a moral vacuum. For many scholars, the question of colonization’s perceived inevitability may seem like a moot point: historians long ago demonstrated that the success of colonization was by no means guaranteed, and rehashing old arguments simply distracts us from less superficial explorations of the past. If we choose not to engage with public discussions of colonization’s perceived inevitability, however, we effectively allow a pillar of racial power in the United States to remain standing.
Call for Contributors for February 2018 Issue, “Engineering Freedom”
The Activist History Review invites proposals for our February issue, “Engineering Freedom: Technology, Politics, and the Death of Net Neutrality.”
That Fella Ain’t Right: Whisper Networks in Appalachia
By the time I left Huntington, I was well known for my outspoken activism related to sexual violence. My first rapist’s name was synonymous with my own, tied to the places he worked and the people who shielded him.
Taking Depression on, Digitally: An Interview with the DE-press-ON App’s Creator Colin Radcliffe
One rainy night in 2016, shortly after being diagnosed with clinical depression and anxiety, Colin Radcliffe walked onto a bridge intending toContinue Reading
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