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Dr Luke Munn
Dr

Luke Munn

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Overview

Background

My work explores the digital cultures that increasingly shape our lives, combining a deep understanding of technical logics (code, infrastructures, architectures) with a critical awareness of race and class, gender and labor, epistemologies and ecologies. This interweaving “offers new and critical insight” (Prof Starosielski, NYU) and makes me an “original voice” (Prof Pasquale, Cornell), leading to my current role as an ARC Future Fellow. I have developed an international profile through six monographs with leading presses such as Automation is a Myth (Stanford), Technical Territories (Michigan) and Red Pilled (Transcript) as well as 45 articles as lead or solo author, with 25 in high ranked (Q1 or Q2) journals. My work has shaped current debates, being cited by The Guardian, the Washington Post, and appearing in Scientific American. My teaching has been praised by scholars and students and draws directly on my cutting-edge research to diagnose contemporary conditions. I actively mentor the next generation of scholars through regular workshops, seminars, and collaboration on real-world projects.

Availability

Dr Luke Munn is:
Available for supervision

Works

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55 works between 2017 and 2025

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2020

Journal Article

Injecting failure: data center infrastructures and the imaginaries of resilience

Munn, Luke (2020). Injecting failure: data center infrastructures and the imaginaries of resilience. Information Society, 36 (3), 167-176. doi: 10.1080/01972243.2020.1737607

Injecting failure: data center infrastructures and the imaginaries of resilience

2020

Journal Article

Porous Territories the Internet beyond Borderless versus Balkanized

Munn, Luke (2020). Porous Territories the Internet beyond Borderless versus Balkanized. Glocalism (1). doi: 10.12893/gjcpi.2020.1.3

Porous Territories the Internet beyond Borderless versus Balkanized

2020

Journal Article

From the black atlantic to black-scholes: precursors of spatial capitalization

Munn, Luke (2020). From the black atlantic to black-scholes: precursors of spatial capitalization. Cultural Politics, 16 (1), 92-110. doi: 10.1215/17432197-8017284

From the black atlantic to black-scholes: precursors of spatial capitalization

2020

Journal Article

Machine readable race: constructing racial information in the Third Reich

Munn, Luke (2020). Machine readable race: constructing racial information in the Third Reich. Open Information Science, 4 (1), 143-155. doi: 10.1515/opis-2020-0011

Machine readable race: constructing racial information in the Third Reich

2020

Book Chapter

Chip, body, earth: toxic temporalities of Intel processor production

Munn, Luke (2020). Chip, body, earth: toxic temporalities of Intel processor production. The temporalities of waste: out of sight, out of time. (pp. 47-58) edited by Fiona Allon, Ruth Barcan and Karma Eddison-Cogan. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Taylor and Francis. doi: 10.4324/9780429317170-5

Chip, body, earth: toxic temporalities of Intel processor production

2019

Conference Publication

“Alexa, can I trust you?”: Small sisters and friendly power

Munn, Luke (2019). “Alexa, can I trust you?”: Small sisters and friendly power. 20th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, Brisbane, QLD Australia, 2-5 October 2019. Urbana, IL United States: University of Illinois Libraries. doi: 10.5210/spir.v2019i0.11012

“Alexa, can I trust you?”: Small sisters and friendly power

2019

Journal Article

Subordinated to Oneself: The Switchboard Operator as Early Self Manager

Munn, Luke (2019). Subordinated to Oneself: The Switchboard Operator as Early Self Manager. Junctions: Graduate Journal of the Humanities, 4 (2), 51-63. doi: 10.33391/jgjh.58

Subordinated to Oneself: The Switchboard Operator as Early Self Manager

2019

Journal Article

Alt-right pipeline: Individual journeys to extremism online

Munn, Luke (2019). Alt-right pipeline: Individual journeys to extremism online. First Monday, 24 (6), 1-19. doi: 10.5210/fm.v24i6.10108

Alt-right pipeline: Individual journeys to extremism online

2019

Journal Article

Clouded data: privacy and the promise of encryption

Munn, Luke, Hristova, Tsvetelina and Magee, Liam (2019). Clouded data: privacy and the promise of encryption. Big Data and Society, 6 (1), 1-16. doi: 10.1177/2053951719848781

Clouded data: privacy and the promise of encryption

2019

Journal Article

Cash burning machine: Uber’s logic of planetary expansion

Munn, Luke (2019). Cash burning machine: Uber’s logic of planetary expansion. TripleC, 17 (2), 1-17. doi: 10.31269/triplec.v17i2.1097

Cash burning machine: Uber’s logic of planetary expansion

2018

Journal Article

Alexa and the intersectional interface

Munn, Luke (2018). Alexa and the intersectional interface. Angles, 7 (7), 1-11. doi: 10.4000/angles.861

Alexa and the intersectional interface

2018

Book

Ferocious logics: unmaking the algorithm

Munn, Luke (2018). Ferocious logics: unmaking the algorithm. Luneburg, Germany: Meson Press.

Ferocious logics: unmaking the algorithm

2018

Journal Article

Rendered inoperable

Munn, Luke (2018). Rendered inoperable. A Peer-Reviewed Journal About, 7 (1), 14-25. doi: 10.7146/aprja.v7i1.115057

Rendered inoperable

2017

Journal Article

I am a Driver-Partner

Munn, Luke (2017). I am a Driver-Partner. Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation, 11 (2), 7-20. doi: 10.13169/workorgalaboglob.11.2.0007

I am a Driver-Partner

2017

Journal Article

Seeing with software: Palantir and the regulation of life

Munn, Luke (2017). Seeing with software: Palantir and the regulation of life. Studies in Control Societies, 2 (1), 1-17.

Seeing with software: Palantir and the regulation of life

Funding

Current funding

  • 2026 - 2030
    After the Future of Work: Platformised Labour in a Hotter Australia
    ARC Future Fellowships
    Open grant

Supervision

Availability

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