ENGL 667 Infrastructure Tales Narrative, Persuasion, and the Built Environment of Modernity
ENGL 667 Infrastructure Tales Narrative, Persuasion, and the Built Environment of Modernity

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Books to Review

Here are some books on the study of infrastructure that we are not reading that could work for your book review. If nothing interests you, please contact me to discuss what else you would like to write about.

  • *Once Upon an Algorithm: How Stories Explain Computing * by Martin Erwig
  • MP3: The Meaning of a Format by Jonathan Sterne
  • A Vast Machine by Paul N. Edwards
  • Molecular Red by McKenzie Wark
  • Mechanization Takes Command by Sigfried Gideon (reprint edition)
  • Still Life with Rhetoric by Laurie E. Gries
  • Rhetoric, Through Everyday Things ed. Scot Barnett and Casey Boyle
  • The Available Means of Persuasion: Mapping a Theory and Pedagogy of Multimodal Public Rhetoric by David M. Sheridan, Jim Ridolfo, and Anthony J. Michel
  • Extrastatecraft by Keller Easterling
  • The Container Principle by Alexander Klose
  • Paper Knowledge by Lisa Gittelman
  • World Projects: Global Information Before World War I by Markus Krajewski
  • The Geology of Media by Jussi Parikka
  • Technosystem by Andrew Feenberg
  • Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life by Adam Greenfield
  • Life in the Age of Drone Warfare ed. Lisa Parks & Caren Kaplan
  • Cultural Techniques: Grids, Filters, Doors, and Other Articulations of the Real by Bernhard Siegert
  • The Grid: Biography of an American Technology by Julie A. Cohn