Rogers Brubaker

Digital hyperconnectivity is a defining fact of our time. The Silicon Valley dream of universal connection – the dream of connecting everyone and everything to everyone and everything else, everywhere and all the time – is rapidly becoming a reality. In this wide-ranging and sharply argued book, Rogers Brubaker develops an original interpretive account of the pervasive and unsettling changes...

Digital hyperconnectivity is a defining fact of our time. The Silicon Valley dream of universal connection – the dream of connecting everyone and everything to everyone and everything else, everywhere and all the time – is rapidly becoming a reality. In this wide-ranging and sharply argued book, Rogers Brubaker develops an original interpretive account of the pervasive and unsettling changes...

How the transgender experience opens up new possibilities for thinking about gender and race. In the summer of 2015, shortly after Caitlyn Jenner came out as transgender, the NAACP official and political activist Rachel Dolezal was "outed" by her parents as white, touching off a heated debate in the media about the fluidity of gender and race. If Jenner could...

From its obscure mid-twentieth-century origins in clinical assessments of intersex individuals, Gender Identity – understood as an inner sense of self that may or may not align with one's natal sex – has become central to the public and private culture of selfhood throughout the Western world. The category has been enacted in laws and regulations, encoded in organisational policies...