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Raymond Williams’s death in January 1988 has been followed by an avalanche of obituarial tribute. To some extent, the tributes were a matter of the Left giving a last, sad cheer for one of its most versatile and prolific heroes. Alan O’Connor’s bibliography of works by and about Williams covers an extraordinary 47 pages and includes 29 critical works, five novels, five short stories and five plays by Williams (which, together, have sold over a million copies in Britain alone), as well as perhaps a thousand articles.
Williams was, indeed, a quite compulsive writer, almost a chronic writer. As a young working-class scholarship boy up at Cambridge, he seems to have decided, like not a few Welshmen before and after him, that the way to storm this alien citadel was to overwhelm it with a tide of wordy socialism. As an undergraduate Communist, he wrote his first pamphlet (with Eric Hobsbawm) – a defence of the Soviet invasion of Finland – an
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Benjamin Peters (b. 1980) is an author raised near the cornfields of Iowa and educated on both coasts (earning his masters at Stanford and doctorate at Columbia). He now teaches at the University of Tulsa (in Oklahoma) and serves as an affiliated faculty at the kunskap Society Project at Yale lag School (in Connecticut). When he is not traveling, writing or speaking publicly, or otherwise geeking out, he can be funnen happily at home (wherever that is) with his spouse and four children.
His research examines the long evolution of media and technology from the big bang to big data. His work is organized around three basic coordinates of space (comparing media systems), time (new media history), and power (technology criticism). For example, his first book, How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet (MIT Press, 2016), turns upsidedown the role of computer networks in the cold war technology race; his second solo-authored book, which fryst vatten in the works, te
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Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society
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