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Cartographies of Time (with Anthony Grafton), New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2010.

Histories of the Future (ed. with Susan Harding), Durham: Duke University Press, 2005.

Word, in Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data, eds. Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, Daniela Agostinho, Annie Ring, Catherine D’Ignazio, and Kristin Veel (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press), 2021, 579–84.

Keyword (Keyword), in Information: Keywords, eds. Michele Kennerly, Samuel Frederick, and Jonathan E. Abel (New York: Columbia University Press), 2021, 121–32.

“Search,” in Information: A Historical Companion, ed. Anthony Grafton, and Anja Silvia Goeing, Ann Blair, and Paul Duguid (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020), 259–86

“Data,” in Information: A Historical Companion, ed. Anthony Grafton, and Anja Silvia Goeing, Ann Blair, and Paul Duguid (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press 2020), 387–92.

“A Map of Language,” Time in Maps: From the Age of Discovery to Our Digital Era, eds. Kären Wigen and Caroline Winterer (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020), 127–48

“A Manhattan Project,” in Surprise: 107 Variations on the Unexpected, eds. Metchild Fend, Anke te Heesen, Christine von Oertzen, Fernando Vidal (Berlin: Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, 2019), 340–3 and Cabinet: A Quarterly of Art and Culture 67 (Winter 2019), 7–10.

“Data as Word,” Historical Studies of the Natural Sciences (November 2018) 48:5: 557–67.

“Date Painting,” LA+ Journal (Fall 2018), 62–7.

“The Art & Illusion of Media History,” Media History 24:1 (2018), 148–53.

“An Archive of Words,” Science in the Archives: Pasts, Presents, Futures, ed. Lorraine Daston (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017), 271–310.

“Against Infographics,” Art Journal 75:1 (Winter 2016) (cover article), 38–57.

“Enter Data,” in Katherine Behar, Data’s Entry (Istanbul: Pera Museum, 2016), 14–33.

“The Library in a Nutshell,” Cabinet: A Quarterly of Art and Culture 60 (Winter 2016), 33–7.

“Time Offline and On,” For the Sake of Learning, eds. Ann Blair and Anja-Silvia Goeing (Boston: Brill, 2016), 974–997.

"Against Infographics," Art Journal 75, no. 1 (Winter 2016).

"History Debugged" in Intertwingled: The Work and Influence of Theodor Nelson, ed. Douglas Dechow and Daniele Struppa (New York: Springer, 2015).

"Whence 'Data'? The Surprising Origins of a Ubiquitous Term," Berlin Journal, 28 (Spring 2015).

"Stop, Words," Representations, 127 (August 2014).

"The Library of the Disaster," Romanic Review 103, no. 4 (May - November 2013).

"Toward a Quantitative History of Data" in Raw Data is an Oxymoron, ed. Lisa Gitelman (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2013).

"The End of the Line" in Il Palazzo Enciclopedico: Biennale Arte 2013 (Venice: La Biennale di Venezia, 2013).

"A Graphic Renaissance," with Anthony Grafton, Hedgehog Review 15, no. 1 (Winter 2013).

"On Listening,” in Curiosity and Method, ed. Sina Najafi (New York: Cabinet Books, 2012).