Menu
Bylines

Rachel Plotnick

All Articles Related to This Author
Book
Power Button: A History of Pleasure, Panic, and the Politics of Pushing
Rachel Plotnick
2018
Book
License to Spill: Where Dry Devices Meet Liquid Lives
Rachel Plotnick
2025
Magazine ad for a shower radio, showing a man happily singing while he bathes.

The Wet History of Media in the Bathroom

How media technologies made themselves at home in one of the most private spaces of modern life.
by Rachel Plotnick via The MIT Press Reader on June 12, 2025
Photo illustration of a button causing death courtesy of MIT Press Reader.

How Americans Got Comfortable With Killing at the Push of a Button

For years, the idea seemed immoral and dangerous.
by Rachel Plotnick via Slate on June 20, 2022
brought to you by
© Bunk History