... Chapter 6 draws from SF writers Ursula K. Le Guin and Octavia Butler, in alliance with ants and acacia seeds in particular places. The task is to tell an SF adventure story with acacias and their associates as the protagonists. It turns out that Le Guin’s carrier bag theory of narrative comes...

... that Indian IT workers experience in the office by doing affective unwork, by loosening the investment in work. Gifts do the affective work of reinforcing cognitive economies by extending care across distance through significant objects (such as diaper bags and clothing for children). Such gifts make coding...