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Rachel Plotnick

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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
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

Power Button: A History of Pleasure, Panic, and the Politics of Pushing

Rachel Plotnick

License to Spill: Where Dry Devices Meet Liquid Lives

Rachel Plotnick

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Cute as a Button? Think Twice

A new book examines the first generation of button-pushing Americans at the turn of the 20th century.

by Anna Feuer via Los Angeles Review of Books on November 30, 2018

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