Table of Contents
Introductions
Your Computer is on Fire Thomas S. Mullaney 3
When Did the Fire Start? Mar Hicks 11
Part I Nothing is Virtual
1 The Cloud is a Factory Nathan Ensmenger 29
2 Your AI is a Human Sarah T. Roberts 51
3 A Network is Not a Network Benjamin Peters 71
4 The Internet Will Be Decolonized Kavita Philip 91
5 Capture is Pleasure Mitali Thakor 117
Part II This is an Emergency
6 Sexism is a Feature, Not a Bug Mar Hicks 135
7 Gender is a Corporate Tool Corinna Schlombs 159
8 Siri Disciplines Halcyon M. Lawrence 179
9 Your Robot Isn't Neutral Safiya Umoja Noble 199
10 Broken is Word Andrea Stanton 213
11 You Can't Make Games About Much Noah Wardrip-Fruin 231
Part III Where Will the Fire Spread?
12 Coding is Not Empowerment Janet Abbate 253
13 Source Code Isn't Ben Allen 273
14 Skills Will Not Set You Free Sreela Sarkar 297
15 Platforms are Infrastructures on Fire Paul N. Edwards 313
16 Typing is Dead Thomas S. Mullaney 337
Afterwords
How to Stop Worrying About Clean Signals and Start Loving the Noise Kavita Philip 363
How Do We Live Now? In The Aftermath of Ourselves Benjamin Peters 377
Contributors 385
Index 387