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Following this week’s news that the brilliant writer Annie Dillard has died at age 81, some Defector staffers wrote about what her work and example have meant to them. Much is made of Dillard’s genius...

In his new book, Kyle Devine examines various efforts—and their shortcomings—to make the music industry greener.

For centuries the Lenape people had hunting grounds and fishing camps in an area they called Penadnic, in the rocky hills of upper Manhattan. Wrested away

Abstract. This article situates the recent explosion of online and app-based sports betting within longer histories of datafication and financialization in sports business and culture. The author trac...

Spotify and UMG striked a licensing deal that allows for AI covers and remixes on the streaming platform.

Notes from a private Udio + Kobalt webinar.

The political possibilities of graphic notation

When I first moved to New York in 2009, the very first night I lay down to sleep in a coffin-narrow room in Harlem, I had a maddening sense of wonderful things happening just out of my reach: all the ...

AI is still in its early days. Investment is surging, talent is. . .

Two recent books, Liz Pelly’s Mood Machine and Andrew deWaard’s Derivative Media, explore the consequences of these technological intermediaries for the music, film, and television industries. While P...

Software Engineering Applications Spring 2026 Code as a Liberal Art, Eugene Lang College, The New School This course gives students the opportunity to experience and critically examine the software e...

When my beloved PhD advisor, Jonathan Sterne, entered hospice care this past March, waves of appreciation and then mourning rippled out from the many communi...

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When challenged to justify past investment in slavery – or current investments in, say, fossil fuel extraction or arms...

The filmmaker had reportedly been attacked by settlers and detained by Israeli police, sparking international outcry.

Where amid this turmoil does neoliberalism stand? In emergency conditions it has been forced to take measures –...

We are very sad to learn of the death of communication scholar Jonathan Sterne, after a long battle with cancer. He was 54 years old. Sterne was James McGill Professor of Culture and Technology at …