Books and Research

Books

Bitcoin is Magic: Internet Money, Memetic Warfare, and the End of Mere Reality

Research

“At the Speed of Money: How Cryptocurrency will Transform Everything” – TEDx, 2016

“Cars with the Boom: Identity and Territory in Postwar Automobile Sound”Technology and Culture, 2014. Named Best Special Issue of 2014 by the Council of the Editors of Learned Journals (2014)

The Sakura of Madness: Japan’s Nationalist Hip Hop and the Parallax of Globalized Identity PoliticsCommunication, Culture, and Critique 2013.

“Sound Gestation: Tokyo Within and Without”Liminalities, 2012

“Hick-Hop Hooray? ‘Honky Tonk Badonkadonk,’ Musical Genre, and the Misrecognitions of Hybridity”Critical Studies in Media Communication, 2011

Minzoku Madness: Hip Hop and Japanese National Subjectivity (University of Iowa dissertation, 2010)