Monographs & Collections

Predictions! is under contract with Mattering Press (Mél Hogan, Stefan Laser & Edward Ongweso Jr. (eds))

This is planned as a multi-volume collection of predictions in print and online. Coming soon.

Publications - selected

Clouded Conveniences (2024)

An archive of suffering: hunger stones and the (n)ec(r)opoetics of climate crisis (2024)

The Fumes of AI (2024)

Big Cloud Solastalgia (2024)

Extractive AI (2024)

The making of Critical Data Center Studies (2024)

AI is a Hot Mess (2024)

Archiving for Extinction (2023)

The Pulse of the Data Centre: AI, Emotions, and Planetary Destruction (2023)

‘Environmental Media’ in the Cloud: The Making of Critical Data Center Art (2023)

Matters (and metaphors) of life and death: How DNA storage doubles back on its promise to the world (2022)

5 Things about Critical Data Center Studies: On elemental thinking (2022)

The Data Center Industrial Complex (2021)

The Future of Death (in the Cloud) (2021)

The Pandemic's Dark Cloud (2021)

Retrofitted data centres: a new world in the shell of the old (2019)

Left Behind: Futurist Fetishists, Prepping and the Abandonment of Earth (2019)

Big Data Ecologies (2018)

Templating Life, DNA as Nature’s Hard Drive (2018)

Water Woes & Data Flows: the Utah Data Center (2015)

Information Ownership and Materiality in an Age of Big Data Surveillance (2015)

The Archive’s Underbelly: Facebook’s Data Storage Centers (2015)

Special Issues (co-edited):

The Nature of Data Centers (2019)

Guest Editors: Mél Hogan and Asta Asta Vonderau

Location and Dislocation: Global Geographies of Digital Data (2017)

Guest Editors: Alix Johnson and Mél Hogan