Last summer I decided to assign Ted Chiang’s The Lifecycle of Software Objects in the graduate course I was getting ready to teach. The title ...

Matthew Kirschenbaum
Matthew Kirschenbaum is a professor of English and director of the Graduate Certificate in Digital Studies at the University of Maryland. His most recent books are Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing (2016) and, with Pat Harrigan, Zones of Control: Perspectives on Wargaming (2016).