Trump appears to some as too simulated, too much a spectacle. But all authorized politics is spectacle. He just does it in a different style. It's no….

In some ways, the great danger for this commodified universe is our boredom with it ... There is this sort of dialectic that you could tease out, tha….

Language is always ambivalent. Its forms mutate and connect in unexpected ways. It's hard to instrumentalize language. But I think it's better to exp….

We no longer have roots, we have aerials..

You can trace a through-line from the eighties to the present, and in retrospect Trump was always one of the minor avatars of a certain business mode….

I would describe myself as a writer and a student of media. If there's a central idea in media theory, it's to take media as form. It might grow out ….

What makes globalization even possible in the first place? One answer would be that it requires the regularization of some kind of media and communic….