Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface: The Centre on the Margins vii
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I Retrieving McLuhan’s Media
7. 1 Transporting Blackness 23
8. 2 Sidewalks of Concrete and Code 36
9. 3 Hardwired 51
10. 4 Textile, the Uneasy Medium 68
11. Part II Thinking with McLuhan: An Invitation
12. 5 Dear Incubator 87
13. 6 Wifesaver 98
14. 7 “Will Miss File Misfile?” 119
15. 8 Computers Made of Paper, Genders Made of Cards 142
16. 9 Sky High 163
17. Part III Media after McLuhan
18. 10 Scanning for Black Data 179
19. 11 3D Printing and Digital Colonialism 192
20. 12 Toward a Media Theory of the Digital Bundle 208
21. Afterword 225
22. Bibliography 233
23. Contributors 255
24. Index 259