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Marc Steinberg

@msteinbrg.bsky.social
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Writing about platforms capitalisms, super apps, convenience stores in Japan and Asia. Director of The Platform Lab.Books: In/Convenience (bit.ly/3Vcs4m4); The Platform Economy; Anime's Media Mix.

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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Buy this book!! Zombies and undead labor and all by the brilliant David Bering Porter!!
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David Bering-Porter @atg-dbp.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
So excited that the book is coming out in November from @uminnpress.bsky.social!
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Yuriko Furuhata @underground259.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Very excited to share a link to my new book! The introduction is now available at dukeupress.edu/archives-of-...
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Archives of the Anthropocene: Visual Grammars of Deep Time
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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Yuriko Furuhata’s brilliant follow up book to Climatic Media is out in Sept! Archives of the Anthropocene is on environmental media and the empires of Japan and US in the 20th century. Also snow crystals & much else. The Intro is now out here! Please read & share: dukeupress.edu/archives-of-...
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Archives of the Anthropocene: Visual Grammars of Deep Time
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Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Spent the morning with @msteinbrg.bsky.social 👋🏻
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Brett Fujioka @brettfujioka.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
This was a conversation that I didn't think I'd see. That's Thiel and Shigesato Itoi a little less than ten years ago. www.1101.com/peter_thiel/
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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Can’t wait to read this book in its entirety- it’s a fantastic account of digital India post smartphone and post “unlimited data “ by one of its foremost scholars
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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Can’t wait to read this book in its entirety- it’s a fantastic account of digital India post smartphone and post “unlimited data “ by one of its foremost scholars
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Rahul Mukherjee @rahmuk.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Few pre-book copies of "Unlimited: Aspirational Politics and Mobile Media Distribution" arrived in package, and some kind endorsements from scholars whom I deeply respect. The book is going to be published in late March through MIT Press.
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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Turns from war to the ballroom without a blink - after claiming he won’t get bored of war
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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
What a waste of an hour I’ll never get back. SOTU seems basically a fail right? 10 minutes clapping for hockey can’t be a good use of time, no?
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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Bracing critique of Byung Chul Han's Orientalist framing of Zen Buddhism - to which I'd add that Japanese Zen itself is a response by the 1930s Kyoto school to Heidegger: offering itself as a useful mirror to the "West" in Japan’s own imperial project www.e-flux.com/notes/678345...
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For Another Buddhism, Against Byung-Chul Han - Notes - e-flux
Alex Taek-Gwang Lee reviews The Philosophy of Zen Buddhism by Byung-Chul Han.
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Brett Fujioka @brettfujioka.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
This is actually a decent, accessible, and--most importantly--coherent primer on what the Dark Enlightenment is and how it's infiltrated contemporary politics. Most of this is contingent, however, on Thiel and Trump maintaining influence and power. cc: @aelkus.bsky.social ridl.io/the-dark-enl...
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The Dark Enlightenment and the Return of Political Theology in Russia and the United States – Riddle Russia
Maria Engström examines the Dark Enlightenment in Russia and the US: a philosophical doctrine that reintegrates metaphysical elements into political thought and promotes a new authoritarian world orde...
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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Joi Ito occupies a pretty big slice of the academia connection
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Dr. Kaitlyn Ugoretz @kaitlynugoretz.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
So satisfying to find niche screencaps for lecture. 🤌 Today we read Marc Steinberg's @msteinbrg.bsky.social excellent translation of Ōtsuka Eiji's "World and Variation: The Reproduction and Consumption of Narrative" in Mechademia Second Arc 5, no. 1 (2010). 📖🔗 www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
It was Mad King Don day but Carney stole the limelight
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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Fascinating new book on academic stardom by the always smart @melstanfill.bsky.social !
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Brett Fujioka @brettfujioka.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
I can’t remember whether I said the writing of Hiroki Azuma and other thinkers from the aughts that I wrote about weren’t just relevant to the United States, but China and Korea as well. Well, if I didn’t, then I’m saying that now.
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Garbage Day @garbageday.email · 24/01/2025
Hi Bluesky
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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
It's November, 2179 and Americans of all stripes are lining up to cast their vote. Republicans are running an AI of Donald Trump, powered by the data center that now constitutes all of Iowa. Democrats are running a semi-intelligent strain of slime mold that has taken the vague form of Gavin Newsom.
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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Today's a big day for professional announcements for me. @jcmsjournal.bsky.social published its Spring issue, which includes an open access InFocus coedited by Leo Goldsmith and I. I'm so excited about the topic, SCI FI DOC, which I think is woefully understudied. quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jcms/infoc...
Screenshot from The Hottest August by Brett Story
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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
A thoughtful piece on social media and sociality... by JP Verne: Make Social Media Social Again: How Platform Interoperability Can Fix Social Media and Future‐Proof Democracy - Vergne - Journal of Management Studies - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Make Social Media Social Again: How Platform Interoperability Can Fix Social Media and Future‐Proof Democracy
This essay argues that social media document (rather than fuel) the decline of political democracy while helping revive organizational democracy, including through ‘decentralized autonomous organizat...
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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
This really is a Netflix world. Finalizing my Netflix Effect syllabus at present and the title of the course has renewed relevance
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Dr. Aurélie Petit 👩🏻‍💻✨ @aurelievpetit.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
I am SO HAPPY to announce that this morning I defended my dissertation "Of Tentacles and Men: How anime shaped the internet as we know it"🥹🥹 I got no revisions and an OUTSTANDING (💅) grade for the presentation wowowow it has been such a journey, thank you to everyone!! 👩🏻‍🎓🎓🫶🥹❤️‍🔥✨✨✨
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Daniel Cardoso Llach @dcardo.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Today in E-flux, a piece I wrote on the spatial and environmental politics of AI in the United States. In great company as part of the Technoecologies series curated by Nathalie Bredella and Grayson Bailey. www.e-flux.com/architecture...
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Technoecologies - Daniel Cardoso Llach - The Mississippi Colossus
Boxtown is a neighborhood in South Memphis established in 1863 by emancipated former slaves. Since 2024, it is also the home to one of the world’s largest supercomputers, property of Elon Musk’s artif...
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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Very fascinated by this new email scam: I read your article and have questions, give me your contact details that are WhatsApp or LINE etc. These scams play into the egos of academics - wow, someone read my work and wants to talk about it! Who else has received these?
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Rafael Grohmann @grohmannrafael.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
💥 Sovereignty as a service. New article in Media, Culture & Society on how big tech companies are co-opting and redefining digital sovereignty. Co-authored by me and Alexandre Costa Barbosa journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
A brilliant intervention in platform studies and Asia just dropped: "Platformize Asia—Reimagining Asia in Platform Capitalism". It will be one of the most important articles in the new few years. Congrats to @linzhang.bsky.social & @elainejyuan.bsky.social ! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Andrea Pollio @andretwp.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Black, magenta and an edge data center on the cover of my book about Nairobi, smartphones, platforms, standards, venture capital and digital China. Out in the boreal fall this year 🪩 with U California Press (and OA)
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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Super excited to announce a new piece out in the world: States and platform capitalisms: A conversation. This is a collaboration with some amazing thinkers and friends- led by @sayshatim.bsky.social Joe Khalil @linzhang.bsky.social & @rahmuk.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Hatim El-Hibri @sayshatim.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Everyone so often you have a conversation with people that really makes the world make more sense, and so this conversation turned into an article that tries to recreate that. what a joy to have worked on this with @msteinbrg.bsky.social @linzhang.bsky.social @rahmuk.bsky.social and Joe Khalil!
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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Super excited to announce a new piece out in the world: States and platform capitalisms: A conversation. This is a collaboration with some amazing thinkers and friends- led by @sayshatim.bsky.social Joe Khalil @linzhang.bsky.social & @rahmuk.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
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Marlene Robertson🍁🇨🇦 @marlenerobertson.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Oz: “We’ve dropped the infertility drugs to make lots of Trump babies, I’m hoping by the midterms.” Inflation, unaffordable healthcare, job layoffs, and now you’re referring to future newborns as “Trump babies?” There’s no fucking way that’s going to happen.
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Dominic Pettman @dominicpettman.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
They say the 90s are back. But I won't really believe it till I see people reading the Krokers, and carrying around dot-matrix print-outs of articles from CTHEORY.
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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Is LinkedIn the new academic Twitter? A place to share and learn about research?
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Paul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
The dark side of Japanese convenience stores - on.ft.com/3Jvk9Ok via @FT @msteinbrg.bsky.social
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The dark side of Japanese convenience stores
Rising wages and an ageing workforce put pressure on existing staff
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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Seems like a piece to read: tracking "a structural change from the production-to-consumption ‘supply chain’ model of the recording era towards emergent circuits of content that integrate industries and audiences" doi.org/10.1177/1367...
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East Asian pop music idol production and the emergence of data fandom in China - Qian Zhang, Keith Negus, 2020
This article traces the formation of popular music idol industries in China and the emergence of data fandom. It charts the growth of digital platforms and hist...
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Interested in data centers? In critical data center studies? Here's an open biblio -- anyone can add or borrow from it. Please do add anything that's missing. Enjoy! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Critical Data Center Studies
Critical Data Center Studies Books Amoore, Louise. 2020. Ethics Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others Duke https://www.dukeupress.edu/cloud-ethics Bedir, M; Groen. L; Kuijpers. M; Sa...
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 30/10/2025
this unremarkable knob routinely sets unholy gobs of money on fire to pretend his boomer sneaker ad company is innovative and interesting, and the press just endlessly normalizes it
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Meta’s Reality Labs posts $4.4 billion loss in third quarter
The Reality Labs business, focused on virtual and augmented reality, lost $4.4 billion loss in third quarter while recording $470 million in sales.
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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
What does 5 trillion even mean
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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Apply to our Film & Moving Image Studies program! Come to Canada! (And please tell your students to do so if you're a prof like me). Here's Cael Keegan telling you why you should: youtu.be/juOFger80b0
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Graduate Programs in Film and Moving Image Studies - Concordia University (Montréal)
YouTube video by Concordia University
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 28/10/2025
Whatever strategy you’re about to suggest, we’ve thought about it. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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ChatGPT Harm Reduction for Writing Assignments
ChatGPT Harm Reduction for Writing Assignments Because this document has escaped containment, a couple points of explanation. I wrote this for myself and a few colleagues as we work out how to handle...
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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
AI now peer reviewing articles?? This timeline is getting darker by the day. What’s the end point for this? Also Elsevier is evil
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 28/10/2025
I "enjoy" this disconnect between tech titans claiming that AI will have us all eating pastries and working two days a week and the reality of firing people en masse while simultaneously supporting fascists who oppose universal basic income and are actively destroying the social safety net
Fortune headline: "Bill Gates says a 2-day work week is coming in just 10 years, thanks to AI replacing humans ‘for most things""Amazon is cutting 14,000 corporate jobs" says Verge headline

subheadline: "Some may ask why we’re reducing roles when the company is performing well,’ an executive admitted, blaming AI for the layoffs"
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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Monopoly capitalism today
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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/
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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Why is Donald touching the Emperor like he’s a mere mortal?
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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Very proud of my student Aurélie Petit for her work on this. Congratulations Aurélie!!
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Dr. Aurélie Petit 👩🏻‍💻✨ @aurelievpetit.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Finished.
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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
There’s been some good work done (Kate Eichorn, @msteinbrg.bsky.social among others), but one of our aesthetic categories badly in need of theorizing right now is “content.” The opposite of “slop” is not a ruined abby overlooking the Lake District.
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