Rebecca Lemov
Rebecca Lemov is an Associate Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University.
Articles authored by Rebecca Lemov
What Escapes the Total Archive
Rebecca Lemov relates how the stories in the a “database of dreams” leak out of the edges, and sometimes overwhelm totality with particularity.
Everywhere and Nowhere: Focus Groups as All-Purpose Devices
Can a focus group be all of us? Rebecca Lemov explores how the box of donuts and the one-way mirror have become essential features of our self-understanding.
Running Amok in Labyrinthine Systems: The Cyber-Behaviorist Origins of Soft Torture
Rebecca Lemov explores the systematizing and regularizing of an American brand of torture.