About Me
My research sits at the intersection of technology, history, and political imagination. It explores how people in Big Tech have come to imagine and reorder the world, and examines the intellectual histories behind these ideas.
I currently work between Cambridge and the LSE, and continue to analyse the discourse and histories of computing.
Kessler, A. (2025). Engineering the social world? An intellectual history of Facebook/Meta, 2004-2021. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science. https://etheses.lse.ac.uk/4932/
Kessler, A. (2024). Longtermism, Big Tech and the rebalancing of historical time: a Benjaminian critique. International Journal of Communications.V.18, Nov. 2024, Pp.1-19. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/22480
Katachie, S., & Kessler A. (2024). Imagining identity in Meta’s metaverse: a genealogy of imagined future realms in computer culture. Communication, Culture & Critique. V.17, (4), Dec. 2024, Pp. 326–335. https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcae015
Asher Kessler 