License to Spill
Where Dry Devices Meet Liquid Lives
$128.30
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
27 May 2025
Summary
How everyday wetness—from finger smudges, sweat, and spilled drinks to showering and swimming—collides with consumers’ media devices designed to stay dry.
License to Spill investigates the everyday moments, activities, and spaces where media technologies and liquids collide—from disastrous spilled drinks that corrode laptops and drops in the toilet that drown smartphones to the greasy finger smudges and sweat droplets that sully screens and glitch smartwatches. Putting histor…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262551588 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262551586 |
| Author: | Rachel Plotnick |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 27 May 2025 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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Critics Review
“An engaging, fascinating, and profoundly creative work, License to Spill should be read by anyone interested in modern digital markets, prosthesis, posthumanism, and gendered histories of technology.”
—Technology and Culture
About The Author
Rachel Plotnick
Rachel Plotnick is a historian and cultural theorist whose research and teaching focus on information, communication, and media technologies in everyday life. She is the author of Power Button- A History of Pleasure, Panic, and the Politics of Pushing (MIT Press).
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