SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Essays:
The Elite Contradictions of Generative AI (With Nick Couldry)
(LSE Media – December 2024)
Big Tech wants us to believe in their vision of the future
(LSE Business Review – May 2024)
AI, Augmented Reality, The Metaverse: How to challenge Big Tech’s visions of the future.
(LSE Media – July 2023)
Academic:
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 Communication. Vol 18. 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 and Critique. 00, 1-10, https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcae015
Asher Kessler 