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        The Murder Factory

        The Murder Factory

        The Murder Factory

        Life and Work of H. H. Holmes, First American Serial Killer

        by Alexandra Midal

        ISBN: 9783956795435

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: August 1, 2023

        The simultaneous emergence of the serial killer and the assembly line as expressions of the rationality of modern production methods.
        Prison Media

        Prison Media

        Prison Media

        Incarceration and the Infrastructures of Work and Technology

        by Anne Kaun and Fredrik Stiernstedt

        ISBN: 9780262545495

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: May 9, 2023

        How prisoners serve as media laborers, while the prison serves as a testing ground for new media technologies.
        Social Engineering

        Social Engineering

        Social Engineering

        How Crowdmasters, Phreaks, Hackers, and Trolls Created a New Form of Manipulative Communication

        by Robert W. Gehl and Sean T Lawson

        ISBN: 9780262543453

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: March 8, 2022

        Manipulative communication—from early twentieth-century propaganda to today's online con artistry—examined through the lens of social engineering.
        Dead Fashion Girl

        Dead Fashion Girl

        Dead Fashion Girl

        A Situationist Detective Story

        by Fred Vermorel

        ISBN: 9781907222719

        Publisher: Strange Attractor Press

        Pub Date: October 15, 2019

        A crime and a six-decade cover-up: the death of a fashion designer in the cesspit of vice and violence that was 1950s London.
        Carceral Capitalism

        Carceral Capitalism

        Carceral Capitalism

        by Jackie Wang

        ISBN: 9781635900026

        Publisher: Semiotext(e)

        Pub Date: February 23, 2018

        Essays on the contemporary continuum of incarceration: the biopolitics of juvenile delinquency, predatory policing, the political economy of fees and fines, and algorithmic policing.
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