Remember the old saw about how history repeats itself, “first as tragedy, then as farce”? The 2012 political spoof The Campaign may be … More
Author: Alex Sayf Cummings
Alex Sayf Cummings is an associate professor of history at Georgia State University, whose work deals with technology, law, public policy, and the political culture of the modern United States. Alex's writing has appeared in Salon, the Brooklyn Rail, the Journal of American History, the Journal of Urban History, Al Jazeera, and Southern Cultures, among other publications, and the book Democracy of Sound was published by Oxford University Press in 2013 (paperback, 2017). Alex can be followed on Twitter at @akbarjenkins.
Cognitive Capitalism: What Is It, If Anything?
For decades, scholars, activists and social critics have grappled with how to characterize the economic shift that has transformed the … More
RTP: High-Tech Suburbia in a Post-Industrial South
In June 2016, the Vernacular Architecture Forum offered a bus tour of Research Triangle Park and its neighboring, 1960s-era suburbs … More
Where Do You Want to Go Today?
This site is a place for me to share ideas and showcase material that stems from my current book project, Brain … More
