"One of the things that is interesting about Keats' letters to Fanny Brawne is that you can't infer a damn thing that’s happened between them."

Hannah Zeavin
Hannah Zeavin is an Assistant Professor of Informatics at Indiana University. Her research focuses on the coordinated histories of technology and human relationships. Zeavin is the author of The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy (MIT Press, 2021) and is at work on her second book, Mother’s Little Helpers: Technology in the American Family (forthcoming from MIT Press). Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Bookforum, The Guardian, Harper’s Magazine, The New York Review of Books, n+1, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. She is the founding editor of Parapraxis, a new magazine of psychoanalysis.
“At the End of Everything”: Talking with Shannon Mattern
"My first book was used by actual librarians, planners, architects. I realized, wow I can do work that matters beyond the academy."
No Cure
Tech promises to cure any ailment, whether an unwelcome feeling or a global pandemic. But what if tech itself is ill? And what is a cure, anyway?