Contents

Your Computer Is on Fire

Thomas S. Mullaney

When Did the Fire Start?

Mar Hicks

Part I Nothing Is Virtual

1 The Cloud Is a Factory

Nathan Ensmenger

2 Your AI Is a Human

Sarah T. Roberts

3 A Network Is Not a Network

Benjamin Peters

4 The Internet Will Be Decolonized

Kavita Philip

5 Capture Is Pleasure

Mitali Thakor

Part II This Is an Emergency

6 Sexism Is a Feature, Not a Bug

Mar Hicks

7 Gender Is a Corporate Tool

Corinna Schlombs

8 Siri Disciplines

Halcyon M. Lawrence

9 Your Robot Isn’t Neutral

Safiya Umoja Noble

10 Broken Is Word

Andrea Stanton

11 You Can’t Make Games about Much

Noah Wardrip-Fruin

Part III Where Will the Fire Spread?

12 Coding Is Not Empowerment

Janet Abbate

13 Source Code Isn’t

Ben Allen

14 Skills Will Not Set You Free

Sreela Sarkar

15 Platforms Are Infrastructures on Fire

Paul N. Edwards

16 Typing Is Dead

Thomas S. Mullaney

How to Stop Worrying about Clean Signals and Start Loving the Noise

Kavita Philip

How Do We Live Now? In the Aftermath of Ourselves

Benjamin Peters