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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

By @underground259.bsky.social & @dukepress.bsky.social Direct link to the intro is here assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/f7ca9afb-82c...

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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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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Thanks Mel!! About to do a talk on convenience in Melbourne :)

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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Whoa! Will read later. Strange combination but very interested

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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

Reminding us too what critique should not be - too easily digested

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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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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Yes and was about to be promoted to innovation minister in Japan before the optics became too bad

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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

Or tech, here, though I’d think of him as academia

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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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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Thanks so much! I appreciate your kind words and for teaching my media mix book. It was hard work but also such enjoyable archival work to do. Hopefully it comes through. So glad it’s readable too :)

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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 · 03/02/2026

Thanks for assigning this! It was a pleasure to translate. Otsuka is also writing about the longer history of this in wartime Japan. It’s been interesting to see his shift. Thanks again!

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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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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Ah thanks for this piece! I hadn’t come across it. What do you think of the continuing cycles of battle royale now? Just watching Last samurai standing and wondering if the social critique of the genre has evaporated into formula - or does the critical function remain?

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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Thanks Brett, so right about this. Don’t you have an article on Uno?

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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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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Didn’t realize I wasn’t following you! You can dm me or maybe email is better if longer

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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

I look forward to reading! Also sent to Luca Caminati who teaches a “Fake Docs!” Class that this topic could fit in - I imagine

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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Congrats on this, look forward to reading. And great idea for a special issue!

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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

Ha meant to say Warner Bros! Weird typo or brain misfire

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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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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Helen, that is so kind and generous of you to say. Coming from you these words mean so much!! Since I didn't know about Usenet and much else, I was mentored on your and Jonathan's Anime Encyclopedia - alongside Tom Lamarre and Livia Monnet and others.... thank you again for these moving words

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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

So nice of you to say Helen your support means so much to Aurélie! Also you received many shout outs in the dissertation and presentation. And yes the book will bring the research to so many in the community!

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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Congratulations Aurélie, so proud of you for this achievement and your amazing work!! Next step: the book version!

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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 · 21/11/2025

I get those too! In utterly unrelated fields. Academia is a business big enough to scam I guess

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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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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Thanks Andrea and thanks too for all your support & feedback on this!

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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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