Marc Steinberg

Ha meant to say Warner Bros! Weird typo or brain misfire

This really is a Netflix world. Finalizing my Netflix Effect syllabus at present and the title of the course has renewed relevance

Comfort and Indifference English sub-titled version of a film showing facts and opinions that lead to the Québec referendum on independence in 1980, with the participation of a historical character: Machiavelli.

What madness. For a the different perspectives on the 1980 referendum I remember this NFB film Comfort and Indifference www.nfb.ca/film/comfort...

Helen, that is so kind and generous of you to say. Coming from you these words mean so much!! Since I didn't know about Usenet and much else, I was mentored on your and Jonathan's Anime Encyclopedia - alongside Tom Lamarre and Livia Monnet and others.... thank you again for these moving words

So nice of you to say Helen your support means so much to Aurélie! Also you received many shout outs in the dissertation and presentation. And yes the book will bring the research to so many in the community!

Congratulations Aurélie, so proud of you for this achievement and your amazing work!! Next step: the book version!

I am SO HAPPY to announce that this morning I defended my dissertation "Of Tentacles and Men: How anime shaped the internet as we know it"🥹🥹 I got no revisions and an OUTSTANDING (💅) grade for the presentation wowowow it has been such a journey, thank you to everyone!! 👩🏻‍🎓🎓🫶🥹❤️‍🔥✨✨✨

Technoecologies - Daniel Cardoso Llach - The Mississippi Colossus Boxtown is a neighborhood in South Memphis established in 1863 by emancipated former slaves. Since 2024, it is also the home to one of the world’s largest supercomputers, property of Elon Musk’s artif...

Today in E-flux, a piece I wrote on the spatial and environmental politics of AI in the United States. In great company as part of the Technoecologies series curated by Nathalie Bredella and Grayson Bailey. www.e-flux.com/architecture...

I get those too! In utterly unrelated fields. Academia is a business big enough to scam I guess

Very fascinated by this new email scam: I read your article and have questions, give me your contact details that are WhatsApp or LINE etc. These scams play into the egos of academics - wow, someone read my work and wants to talk about it! Who else has received these?

💥 Sovereignty as a service. New article in Media, Culture & Society on how big tech companies are co-opting and redefining digital sovereignty. Co-authored by me and Alexandre Costa Barbosa

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A brilliant intervention in platform studies and Asia just dropped: "Platformize Asia—Reimagining Asia in Platform Capitalism". It will be one of the most important articles in the new few years. Congrats to @linzhang.bsky.social & @elainejyuan.bsky.social !

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Thanks Andrea and thanks too for all your support & feedback on this!

Thanks Niels!

Black, magenta and an edge data center on the cover of my book about Nairobi, smartphones, platforms, standards, venture capital and digital China. Out in the boreal fall this year 🪩 with U California Press (and OA)

Likewise!!!

With many thanks to the @platformsnsociety.bsky.social team for their valuable feedback, including Julie Chen, @andretwp.bsky.social @nielsvdoorn.bsky.social @cheryllsoriano.bsky.social @grohmannrafael.bsky.social - thanks for giving us this place to dialogue!

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Super excited to announce a new piece out in the world: States and platform capitalisms: A conversation. This is a collaboration with some amazing thinkers and friends- led by @sayshatim.bsky.social Joe Khalil @linzhang.bsky.social & @rahmuk.bsky.social

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Everyone so often you have a conversation with people that really makes the world make more sense, and so this conversation turned into an article that tries to recreate that. what a joy to have worked on this with @msteinbrg.bsky.social @linzhang.bsky.social @rahmuk.bsky.social and Joe Khalil!

A joy indeed ❤️

End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance

Also, this comes out at Hatim’s case study Neom is reported on in the FT

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Thanks so much for saying! It was a true pleasure to write with these folks

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We hope you read this and this can spark yet more discussions to come! With gratitude for having good people to think with - there's few things better than that in life.

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Upon publication, Hatim El-Hibri and Joe Khalil started up a series of long and important conversations about other regions, and other ways of thinking platform capitalisms (and the limits of it). We’ve tried to capture this rich series of dialogues here, in this piece for Platforms & Society.

Platform capitalisms and platform cultures - Marc Steinberg, Lin Zhang, Rahul Mukherjee, 2025 This article argues for a pluralization of the “platform capitalism” framework, suggesting we should think instead in terms of “platform capitalisms.” This plur...

A couple years ago, three of us wrote “Platform capitalisms and platform cultures” a response to debates around platform capitalism and how it worked differently in our areas of study, India, China, and Japan.
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Super excited to announce a new piece out in the world: States and platform capitalisms: A conversation. This is a collaboration with some amazing thinkers and friends- led by @sayshatim.bsky.social Joe Khalil @linzhang.bsky.social & @rahmuk.bsky.social

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Oz: “We’ve dropped the infertility drugs to make lots of Trump babies, I’m hoping by the midterms.”

Inflation, unaffordable healthcare, job layoffs, and now you’re referring to future newborns as “Trump babies?”

There’s no fucking way that’s going to happen.

Ctheory! Brings me back

They say the 90s are back. But I won't really believe it till I see people reading the Krokers, and carrying around dot-matrix print-outs of articles from CTHEORY.

Yeah agreed. I spent some time lately and have found some good work, but the tone is hard to take