Sebastian Giessmann’s The Connectivity of Things is a foundational media history that traces the material and conceptual evolution of networks across time, technologies, and infrastructures. Now available in English for the first time, this German classic offers a richly textured exploration of how the idea of the “net” came to structure our understanding of social,…

Jo Guldi’s The Dangerous Art of Text Mining is a timely and incisive intervention into the intersection of digital technology and the humanities. In an age inundated with text—where over 280 billion emails are sent daily—Guldi makes a compelling case that traditional data science, when applied to humanistic inquiry without critical reflection, can be not…